Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic

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of air-breathing land snails,

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gastropod

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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 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi these snails belong to 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 ...

", 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

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, the western- Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, the

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Polynesia Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () "island"), to, Polinisia; mi, Porinihia; haw, Polenekia; fj, Polinisia; sm, Polenisia; rar, Porinetia; ty, Pōrīnetia; tvl, Polenisia; tkl, Polenihia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of ...

and

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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

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shows the

phylogenic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

relationships of this family to the other families within the

:Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". '' Journal of Biogeography'' 27(2): 379-390.
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q1543331 Taxa named by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell Gastropod families