Vitrinidae
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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).
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).
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:
- 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
- Media related to Vitrinidae at Wikimedia Commons