Gastrodontidae is a

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of air-breathing land

snails A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastro ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the superfamily

Gastrodontoidea Gastrodontoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the limacoid clade. Taxonomy According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), families in this superfamily ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gastrodontidae Tryon, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=821641 on 2020-05-08 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-

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, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical and

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Anatomy

Some snail species in this family use

love darts A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sac. These ...

made of cartilage. In this family, the number of

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s lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).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, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

Genera

Genera within the family include: * '' Gastrodonta'' Albers, 1850 -

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of the family * ''

Aegopinella ''Aegopinella'' is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or ...

'' Lindholm, 1927 * '' Archaegopis'' Wenz in K. Fischer & Wenz, 1914 † * ''

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'' Ancey, 1887 * '' Glyphyalinia'' E. von Martens, 1892 * '' Godwinia'' Sykes, 1900 * '' Janulus'' Lowe, 1852"Gastrodontidae"

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, accessed 4 September 2010. ** '' Janulus bifrons'' (R. T. Lowe, 1831) ** '' Janulus pompylius'' (Shuttleworth, 1852) ** '' Janulus stephanophorus'' (Deshayes, 1850) * '' 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 ''Retinella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Gastrodontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Retinella P. Fischer, 1877. Accessed through: World Registe ...

'' P. Fischer, 1877 * '' Striatura'' E. S. Morse, 1864 ** '' Striatura milium'' (Whittemore, 1859) * '' Striaturops'' Baker, 1928 * '' Ventridens'' W. G. Binney & Bland, 1869 * '' Vermetum'' Wollaston, 1878 * '' Vitrinizonites'' W.G. Binney, 1879 * '' Zonitoides'' Lehmann, 1862"Genera in family Gastrodontidae"
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, accessed 3 September 2010. ;Synonyms: * ''Aegopina'' Kobelt, 1879: synonym of ''Retinella'' P. Fischer, 1877 * ''Alienitor'' Iredale, 1937: synonym of ''Zonitoides'' Lehmann, 1862 (junior synonym) * ''Bermudia'' Ancey, 1887: synonym of ''Poecilozonites'' O. Boettger, 1884 * ''Edusa'' Albers, 1860: synonym of ''Mesomphix (Moreletia)'' Gray, 1855 represented as ''Mesomphix'' Rafinesque, 1819 * ''Glyphognomon'' H. B. Baker, 1930: synonym of ''Glyphyalinia'' E. von Martens, 1892 * ''Glyphyaloides'' H. B. Baker, 1930: synonym of ''Glyphyalus'' H. B. Baker, 1928 * ''Juno'' Mazyck, 1889: synonym of ''Poecilozonites'' O. Boettger, 1884 * ''Namoitena'' Iredale, 1933: synonym of ''Mesomphix (Omphalina)'' Rafinesque, 1831 represented as Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819 * ''Omphalina'' Rafinesque, 1831: synonym of Mesomphix (Omphalina) Rafinesque, 1831 represented as ''Mesomphix'' Rafinesque, 1819 (original rank) * ''Politenella'' Balashov, 2016: synonym of ''Aegopinella'' Lindholm, 1927 * ''Zonitellus'' H. B. Baker, 1928: synonym of ''Zonitoides'' Lehmann, 1862

Cladogram

cladogram A cladogram (from Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to d ...

showing phylogenic relations of families in the

limacoid clade The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina Distribution The original ancestral area of limacoid families is thought to b ...

:Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". ''

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'' 27(2): 379-390.
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