Gastrodontidae
Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
This family has no subfamilies.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.Genera
Genera within the family include:
- Gastrodonta Albers, 1850 - type species of the family
- Aegopinella Lindholm, 1927
- Archaegopis Wenz in K. Fischer & Wenz, 1914 †
- Atlantica Ancey, 1887
- Glyphyalinia E. von Martens, 1892
- Godwinia Sykes, 1900
- Janulus Lowe, 1852
- * Janulus bifrons
- * Janulus pompylius
- * Janulus stephanophorus
- Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819
- Nesovitrea C. M. Cooke, 1921
- Patulopsis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879
- Perpolita H. B. Baker, 1928
- Poecilozonites O. Boettger, 1884 - Bermuda land snail
- Pseudohyalina Morse, 1864
- Retinella P. Fischer, 1877
- Striatura E. S. Morse, 1864
- * Striatura milium
- Striaturops Baker, 1928
- Ventridens W. G. Binney & Bland, 1869
- Vermetum Wollaston, 1878
- Vitrinizonites W.G. Binney, 1879
- Zonitoides'' Lehmann, 1862
Cladogram
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of families in the limacoid clade:
