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Gastrodontidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Gastrodontoidea

Rank
  
Family

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Gastrodontidae

Similar
  
Vitrinidae, Oxychilidae, Punctidae, Zonitoides, Ferussaciidae

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

Contents

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

Distribution

The distribution of the Gastrodontidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical and Hawaii.

Anatomy

Some snail species in this family use love darts made of cartilage.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).

Genera

Genera within the family include:

  • Gastrodonta Albers, 1850 - type species of the family
  • Janulus Lowe, 1852
  • Janulus bifrons (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
  • Janulus pompylius (Shuttleworth, 1852)
  • Janulus stephanophorus (Deshayes, 1850)
  • Poecilozonites O. Boettger, 1884 - Bermuda land snail
  • Pseudohyalina Morse, 1864
  • Striatura E. S. Morse, 1864
  • Striatura milium (Whittemore, 1859)
  • Striaturops Baker, 1928
  • Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862

    • Cladogram

    A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of families in the limacoid clade:

    References

    Gastrodontidae Wikipedia
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