Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gastrodontidae Tryon, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=821641 on 2020-05-08
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution The distribution of the Gastrodontidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical and Hawaii. There are some representatives in Bermuda and Madeira.
Anatomy Some snail species in this family use love darts made of cartilage.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (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 within the family include: Aegopinella Lindholm, 1927 † Archaegopis Wenz in K. Fischer & Wenz, 1914 Atlantica Ancey, 1887 Gastrodonta Albers, 1850 Glyphyalinia E. von Martens, 1892 Godwinia Sykes, 1900 Janulus Lowe, 1852"Gastrodontidae". Fauna Europaea, accessed 4 September 2010. Janulus bifrons (R. T. Lowe, 1831) Janulus pompylius (Shuttleworth, 1852) Janulus stephanophorus (Deshayes, 1850) Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819 Nesovitrea C. M. Cooke, 1921 Patulopsis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879 Perpolita H. B. Baker, 1928 Poecilozonites O. Boettger, 1884 - Bermuda land snail Pseudohyalina Morse, 1864 Retinella P. Fischer, 1877 Striatura E. S. Morse, 1864 Striatura milium (Whittemore, 1859) Striaturops Baker, 1928 Ventridens W. G. Binney & Bland, 1869 † Vermetujanulus Walther & Groh, 2020 Vermetum Wollaston, 1878 Vitrinizonites W.G. Binney, 1879 Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862"Genera in family Gastrodontidae" [n=2]. AnimalBase, accessed 3 September 2010.
Synonyms Aegopina Kobelt, 1879: synonym of Retinella P. Fischer, 1877 Alienitor Iredale, 1937: synonym of Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862 (junior synonym) Bermudia Ancey, 1887: synonym of Poecilozonites O. Boettger, 1884 Edusa Albers, 1860: synonym of Mesomphix (Moreletia) Gray, 1855 represented as Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819 Glyphognomon H. B. Baker, 1930: synonym of Glyphyalinia E. von Martens, 1892 Glyphyaloides H. B. Baker, 1930: synonym of Glyphyalus H. B. Baker, 1928 Juno Mazyck, 1889: synonym of Poecilozonites O. Boettger, 1884 Namoitena Iredale, 1933: synonym of Mesomphix (Omphalina) Rafinesque, 1831 represented as Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819 Omphalina Rafinesque, 1831: synonym of Mesomphix (Omphalina) Rafinesque, 1831 represented as Mesomphix Rafinesque, 1819 (original rank) Politenella Balashov, 2016: synonym of Aegopinella Lindholm, 1927 Pseudohyalinia [sic]: synonym of Pseudohyalina E. S. Morse, 1864 (misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling) Zonitellus H. B. Baker, 1928: synonym of Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862
Cladogram A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of families in 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
External links Tryon, G. W. (1866). Monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca of the United States. American Journal of Conchology. 2(3): 218-279, pls 1-4 [-(1 July); 2(4): 306-327, pls 5-6