Gastrodontidae

Gastrodontidae
Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent
?Upper Paleocene, Upper Oligocene-Recent[1]
Two shells of Zonitoides nitidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Gastrodontidae
Tryon, 1866[2]
Genera

See text

Synonyms

Janulinae Wenz, 1923
Poecilozonitinae Pilsbry, 1924

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).

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.[3]

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).[4]

Genera

Genera within the family include:

Cladogram

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of families in the limacoid clade:[3]

 limacoid clade 

 Staffordioidea 

Staffordiidae

 
 

 

 Dyakioidea 

Dyakiidae

 
 Gastrodontoidea 

 

Pristilomatidae

 
 

 

Chronidae

 
 

 

Euconulidae

 
 

Trochomorphidae

 
 
 

 

Gastrodontidae

 
 

Oxychilidae

 
 
 
 
 
 

 Parmacelloidea 

 

Trigonochlamydidae

 
 

Parmacellidae

 
 

Milacidae

 
 
 

 

 Zonitoidea 

Zonitidae

 
 Helicarionoidea 

 

Helicarionidae

 
 

 

Ariophantidae

 
 

Urocyclidae

 
 
 
 
 Limacoidea 

 

Vitrinidae

 
 

 

Boettgerillidae

 
 

 

Limacidae

 
 

Agriolimacidae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ "Family summary for Gastrodontidae". AnimalBase, accessed 3 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Tryon G. W. (1 July) 1866. Monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca of the United States. American Journal of Conchology, 2(3): 218-277, plates 1-4. Page 242 and page 254.
  3. 1 2 Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  4. ↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Gastrodontidae". Fauna Europaea, accessed 4 September 2010.
  6. ↑ "Genera in family Gastrodontidae" [n=2]. AnimalBase, accessed 3 September 2010.

Further reading

  • Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2. 1309-1466.
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