Gastrodontidae

Gastrodontidae; Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ?Upper Paleocene, Upper Oligocene-Recent
	Two shells of Zonitoides nitidus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Gastrodontidae; Tryon, 1866
Type genus
	Gastrodonta; Albers, 1850
Genera
	See text
Synonyms
	Janulinae Wenz, 1923; ; Poecilozonitinae Pilsbry, 1924;

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). ^[3]

Distribution

The distribution of the Gastrodontidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical and Hawaii.^[4]

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).^[5]

Genera within the family include:

Gastrodonta Albers, 1850 - type species of the family
Aegopinella Lindholm, 1927
Archaegopis Wenz in K. Fischer & Wenz, 1914 †
Atlantica Ancey, 1887
Glyphyalinia E. von Martens, 1892
Godwinia Sykes, 1900
Janulus Lowe, 1852^[6]
- Janulus bifrons (R. T. Lowe, 1831)^[6]
- Janulus pompylius (Shuttleworth, 1852)^[6]
- Janulus stephanophorus (Deshayes, 1850)^[6]
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^[6]
- Striatura milium (Whittemore, 1859)^[6]
Striaturops Baker, 1928
Ventridens W. G. Binney & Bland, 1869
Vermetum Wollaston, 1878
Vitrinizonites W.G. Binney, 1879
Zonitoides Lehmann, 1862^[6]^[7]

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of families in the limacoid clade:^[4]

^ "Family summary for Gastrodontidae". AnimalBase, accessed 3 September 2010.
^ Tryon G. W. (1 July) 1866. Monograph of the terrestrial Mollusca of the United States. American Journal of Conchology, 2(3): 218-277, plates 1-4. Page 242 and page 254.
^ ^a ^b 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
^ ^a ^b Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
^ 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, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Gastrodontidae". Fauna Europaea, accessed 4 September 2010.
^ "Genera in family Gastrodontidae" [n=2]. AnimalBase, accessed 3 September 2010.