Pristilomatidae
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. Family Pristilomatidae has no subfamilies.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:
- 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
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade:
