Pristilomatidae

Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.

Pristilomatidae
Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Pristilomatidae T. Cockerell, 1891[1]
Synonyms
Vitreinae H. B. Baker, 1930[2]

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]

limacoid clade

Staffordioidea  Staffordiidae        Dyakioidea  Dyakiidae    Gastrodontoidea    Pristilomatidae       Chronidae       Euconulidae     Trochomorphidae         Gastrodontidae     Oxychilidae              Parmacelloidea    Trigonochlamydidae     Parmacellidae     Milacidae          Zonitoidea  Zonitidae    Helicarionoidea    Helicarionidae       Ariophantidae     Urocyclidae          Limacoidea    Vitrinidae       Boettgerillidae       Limacidae     Agriolimacidae

References

1. Cockerell T. D. A. (August 1891). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1891(2): 216.
2. 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.
3. http://www.mollbase.de/list/index.php?aktion=zeige_taxon&id=659 accessed 18 October 2009.
4. 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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