Sagdidae
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| Two adult shells and one juvenile shell of Sagda alligans | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Sagdidae Pilsbry, 1895[1] (Sagdinae is on page xxxii.) |
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Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea [2] and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea.[3] Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.[4]
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[edit] Anatomy
Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.
[edit] Subfamilies and genera
The family Sagdidae consists of four subfamilies [2]:
- Sagdinae Pilsbry, 1895
- Aquebaninae H. B. Baker, 1940
- Platysuccineinae H. B. Baker, 1940
- Yunqueinae Schileyko, 1998
Genera in the family Sagdidae include[5]:
The type genus is Sagda Beck, 1837.
- Aerotrochus
- Aquebana
- Corneosagda
- Hojeda
- Hyalosagda
- Lacteoluna
- Meiophysema
- Microsagda
- Odontosagda - Odontosagda blandii
- Platysuccinea
- Proserpinula
- Sagda
- Stauroglypta
- Strialuna
- Suavitas
- Trifaux
- Vilitas
- Volvidens
- Xenodiscula
- Zaphysema
[edit] References
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (2 February) 1895 Guide to the study of helices. Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. 36, 33a:i-xlviii, 161-336, plates 41-71.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1-397.
- ^ Wade, C. M., Mordan, P. B. & Naggs, F. 2006. Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 593-610. Abstract.
- ^ Goodfriend, G. A. 1986. Radiation of the land snail genus Sagda (Pulmonata: Sagdidae): comparative morphology, biogeography and ecology of the species of north-central Jamaica. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 367-398.
- ^ Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.
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