Vitrinidae

Vitrinidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Limacoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Vitrinidae
Drawing of a live Vitrina pellucida
Scientific classification
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Vitrinidae

Fitzinger, 1833
Genera

See text

Synonyms
  • Plutoniinae Cockerell, 1893
  • Vitriplutoniinae Collinge, 1893
  • Phenacolimacinae Schileyko, 1986
  • Semilimacinae Schileyko, 1986
  • Oligolimacini Schileyko, 2003
Three shells of Eucobresia diaphana, scale bar in mm

The family Vitrinidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the Vitrinidae includes the Nearctic, western Palearctic, eastern Palearctic, and Ethiopian zones, as well as Hawaii.[1]

Anatomy

Snails in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[2]

Genera

Genera in the family Vitrinidae include:

Cladogram

A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[1]

 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. 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.
  2. Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
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