Pristilomatidae

Family of gastropods

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]

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[edit]

The distribution of Pristilomatidae includes the Nearctic, the western-Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, the Neotropical, Polynesia and Hawaii.[4]

## Genera[edit]

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[edit]

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:[4]

limacoid clade |  |  Staffordioidea |

Staffordiidae

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|  |  |  |  Dyakioidea |

Dyakiidae

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Gastrodontoidea |  |  |

Pristilomatidae

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|  |  |

Chronidae

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|  |  |

Euconulidae

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Trochomorphidae

|  |  |

Gastrodontidae

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Oxychilidae

|  |  Parmacelloidea |  |  |

Trigonochlamydidae

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Parmacellidae

Milacidae

|  |  |  |  Zonitoidea |

Zonitidae

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Helicarionoidea |  |  |

Helicarionidae

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|  |  |

Ariophantidae

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Urocyclidae

Limacoidea |  |  |

Vitrinidae

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|  |  |

Boettgerillidae

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|  |  |

Limacidae

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Agriolimacidae

## References[edit]

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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. ^ "Vitreinae Thiele 1931". www.mollbase.de (in German). Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
4. ^ 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.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1543331
* Wikispecies: Pristilomatidae
* CoL: 7NKML
* EoL: 4928271
* Fauna Europaea: 11455
* Fauna Europaea (new): b3c4139e-6746-4905-b887-c7c0404b9e94
* GBIF: 3244414
* iNaturalist: 553788
* IRMNG: 117275
* NBN: NHMSYS0020528272
* WoRMS: 866806

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