Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Rank Family | Class Gastropoda Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Oxychilidae, Euconulidae, Punctidae, Vitrea, Vitrinidae | ||
Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
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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. 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:
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade: