Sagdidae
| Sagdidae | |
|---|---|
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| Two adult shells and one juvenile shell of Sagda alligans | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Sagdidae |
| Type genus | |
| Sagda | |
Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea [2] and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea.[3] Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.[4]
Anatomy
Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.
Subfamilies and genera
The family Sagdidae consists of four subfamilies:[2]
- Sagdinae Pilsbry, 1895
- Aquebaninae H. B. Baker, 1940
- Platysuccineinae H. B. Baker, 1940
- Yunqueinae Schileyko, 1998
Genera in the family Sagdidae include:[5]
The type genus is Sagda Beck, 1837.
- Aerotrochus
- Aquebana
- Corneosagda
- Hojeda
- Hyalosagda
- Lacteoluna
- Meiophysema
- Microsagda
- Odontosagda - Odontosagda blandii
- Platysuccinea
- Proserpinula
- Sagda
- Stauroglypta
- Strialuna
- Suavitas
- Trifaux
- Vilitas
- Volvidens
- Xenodiscula
- Zaphysema
References
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (2 February) 1895 Guide to the study of helices. Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. 36, 33a:i-xlviii, 161-336, plates 41-71. (Sagdinae is on page xxxii.)
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1-397.
- ↑ Wade, C. M., Mordan, P. B. & Naggs, F. 2006. Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 593-610. Abstract.
- ↑ Goodfriend, G. A. 1986. Radiation of the land snail genus Sagda (Pulmonata: Sagdidae): comparative morphology, biogeography and ecology of the species of north-central Jamaica. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 367-398.
- ↑ Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.
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- Gary Rosenberg & Igor V. Muratov. Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica
- Sei, M., Robinson, R.G., Geneva, A.J. & Rosenberg, G., (2017). "Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-32. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx082.
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