Pristilomatidae | |
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Five shells of Hawaiia minuscula, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
Family: |
Pristilomatidae T. Cockerell, 1891 [1] |
Synonyms | |
Vitreinae H. B. Baker, 1930 [2] |
Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs 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).
The distribution of Pristilomatidae includes the Nearctic, the western- Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, the Neotropical, Polynesia and Hawaii. [4]
Genera within the family Pristilomatidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade: [4]