| Pristilomatidae | |
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| Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar in mm | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Family: | Pristilomatidae T. Cockerell, 1891[1]
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Vitreinae H. B. Baker, 1930[2] | |
Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
According to the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi these snails belong to the "limacoid clade", and Vitreinae is a synonym for Pristilomatidae, although Vitreinae used to be a subfamily of Zonitidae.[3] Family Pristilomatidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
The distribution of Pristilomatidae includes the Nearctic, the western-Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, the Neotropical, Polynesia and Hawaii.[4]
Genera
Genera within the family Pristilomatidae include:
- Coreovitrea Riedel, 1967
- Gollumia Riedel, 1988
- Gyralina Andreae, 1902
- Hawaiia Gude, 1911
- Lindbergia Riedel, 1959
- Pristiloma Ancey, 1887 - type genus of the family Pristilomatidae
- Spinophallus Riedel, 1962
- Troglovitrea Negrea & Riedel, 1968
- Taurinellushka Balashov, 2014
- Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 - There are three subgenera in the genus Vitrea:
- subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833
- subgenus Subrimatus A. J. Wagner, 1907
- subgenus Crystallus R. T. Lowe, 1854
- Vermetum Wollaston, 1878
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[4]
References
- ^ Cockerell T. D. A. (August 1891). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1891(2): 216.
- ^ Baker H. B. (24 April 1930) "New and problematic West African land snails". The Nautilus 43(4): 121-128. Vitreinae is on the page 122.
- ^ "Vitreinae Thiele 1931". www.mollbase.de (in German). Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ a b Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
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