Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea

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 , families in this superfamily include:...

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According to the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

 these snails belong to the "limacoid clade

Limacoid clade

The limacoid clade is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the informal group Sigmurethra.- Distribution :...

", 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

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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Distribution

Distribution of Pristilomatidae include Nearctic

Nearctic

The Nearctic is one of the eight terrestrial ecozones dividing the Earth's land surface.The Nearctic ecozone covers most of North America, including Greenland and the highlands of Mexico...

, western-Palearctic

Palearctic

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...

 and eastern Palearctic, Neotropical, Polynesia

Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language, culture and beliefs...

 and Hawaii.

Genera

Genera within the family Pristilomatidae include:

• Coreovitrea Riedel, 1967
• Gollumia Riedel, 1988
• Gyralina Andreae, 1902
• Hawaiia
  Hawaiia
  Hawaiia is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pristilomatidae.- Species:Species within this genus include:* Hawaiia minuscula...
  
  Gude, 1911
• Lindbergia Riedel, 1959
• Pristiloma Ancey, 1887 - type genus of the family Pristilomatidae
• Spinophallus Riedel, 1962
• Troglovitrea Negrea & Riedel, 1968
• Vitrea
  Vitrea
  Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pristilomatidae.-Species:This genus contains more than 60 species including the following:subgenus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833...
  
  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

Cladogram

A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...

 shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families within the limacoid clade

Limacoid clade

The limacoid clade is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the informal group Sigmurethra.- Distribution :...

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