Pristilomatidae

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

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:

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

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

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

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.
http://www.mollbase.de/list/index.php?aktion=zeige_taxon&id=659 accessed 18 October 2009.
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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