Vitrinidae is a family of small, air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Limacoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Vitrinidae Fitzinger, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875674 on 2022-02-01
Distribution The distribution of the Vitrinidae includes the Nearctic, western Palearctic, eastern Palearctic, and Ethiopian zones, as well as Hawaii.
Anatomy Snails in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (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 in the family Vitrinidae include: † Planellavitrina Margry, 2018 † Provitrina Wenz, 1919 Subfamily Plutoniinae T. Cockerell, 1893 Arabivitrina Thiele, 1931 Azorivitrina Giusti, Fiorentino, Benocci & Manganelli, 2011 Calidivitrina Pilsbry, 1919 Canarivitrina Valido & M. R. Alonso, 2000 Guerrina Odhner, 1954 Insulivitrina P. Hesse, 1923 Madeirovitrina Groh & Hemmen, 1986 Megavitrina Bank, Menkhorst & Neubert, 2016 Phenacolimax Stabile, 1859 Plutonia Morelet, 1864 Sanettivitrina Pfarrer, Rowson, Tattersfield & Neubert, 2021 Sardovitrina Manganelli & Giusti, 2005 Subfamily Vitrininae Fitzinger, 1833 Eucobresia H. B. Baker, 1929 Hessemilimax Schileyko, 1986 Oligolimax P. Fischer, 1878 Semilimacella Soós, 1917 Semilimax Gray, 1847 Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801 Vitrinobrachium Künkel, 1929 Synonyms Balcanovitrina Ošanova & L. Pintér, 1968: synonym of Semilimacella Soós, 1917 Chlamydea Westerlund, 1886: synonym of Semilimax Gray, 1847 Cobresia Hübner, 1810: synonym of Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801 Gallandia Bourguignat, 1880: synonym of Oligolimax P. Fischer, 1878 Helicolimax J. Férussac, 1807: synonym of Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801 Hyalina S. Studer, 1820: synonym of Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801 (non Schumacher, 1817) Pagana Gistel, 1848: synonym of Vitrina Draparnaud, 1801 Targionia P. Hesse, 1923: synonym of Semilimacella Soós, 1917 Tozzettia P. Hesse, 1924: synonym of Semilimacella Soós, 1917 Trochovitrina O. Boettger, 1880: synonym of Oligolimax P. Fischer, 1878 (junior synonym) Vitrinopugio Ihering, 1892: synonym of Semilimax Gray, 1847 (unavailable; objective junior synonym) Vitriplutonia Collinge, 1893: synonym of Plutonia Morelet, 1864
Cladogram A cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. , JSTOR.
References
Schileyko, A. A. (1986). Sistema i filogeniya Vitrinidae (Gastropoda Pulmonata). In: Y. I. Starobogatov & Schileyko, A. A. (eds.), Morfologicheskie i ekologicheskie osnovy sistematiki molljuskov. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 148: 124-157. Leningrad
External links Fitzinger, L.J. (1833). Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreichs's unter der Enns, 3: 88-122. Wien Pfarrer, B., Rowson, B., Tattersfield, P. & Neubert, E. (2021). Phylogenetic position of African Vitrinidae: Old family groups unraveled. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 2021: 1–19.