Pristilomatidae Explained

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.^[1] 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.

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:^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vitreinae Thiele 1931 . de . https://web.archive.org/web/20071020180314/http://www.mollbase.de/list/index.php?aktion=zeige_taxon&id=659 . 20 Oct 2007 . www.mollbase.de . 18 October 2009.
2. Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390., JSTOR.