Pristilomatidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
According to the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi these snails belong to the "limacoid clade", 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 Nearctic, the western-Palearctic and eastern Palearctic, the Neotropical, Polynesia and Hawaii.
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 cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the 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.
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