- Source: Pristilomatidae
Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs 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 (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:
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: