Sagdidae

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Sagdidae
Sagda alligans shell.jpg
Two adult shells and one juvenile shell of Sagda alligans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Sagdoidea
Family: Sagdidae
Pilsbry, 1895 [1]
Type genus
Sagda

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]

Contents

Anatomy

Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.

Subfamilies and genera

The family Sagdidae consists of the following subfamilies: [2]

Genera in the family Sagdidae include: [5]

The type genus is Sagda Beck, 1837.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stylommatophora</span> Order of gastropods

Stylommatophora is an order of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon includes most land snails and slugs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bradybaeninae</span> Subfamily of gastropods

Bradybaeninae is a taxonomic subfamily of medium-sized to small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae, superfamily Helicoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Camaenidae</span> Family of gastropods

Camaenidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families in the clade Stylommatophora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trissexodontidae</span> Family of gastropods

Trissexodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pleurodontidae</span> Family of gastropods

Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Spiraxidae</span> Family of gastropods

Spiraxidae is a family of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the superfamily Testacelloidea.

<i>Sagda</i> Genus of gastropods

Sagda is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Sagdidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sigmurethra</span> Informal group of gastropods

Sigmurethra is a taxonomic category of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This is an informal group which includes most land snails and slugs.

<i>Lucerna bainbridgii</i> Species of gastropod

Lucerna bainbridgii is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.

Sagdoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Helicoidei of the suborder Helicina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Orthalicoidea</span> Superfamily of gastropods

The Orthalicoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Orthalicoidei of the suborder Helicina

<i>Dentellaria sloaneana</i> Species of gastropod

Dentellaria sloaneana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.

<i>Granodomus lima</i> Species of gastropod

Granodomus lima is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sagdidae.

<i>Zachrysia</i> Genus of gastropods

Zachrysia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Zachrysiidae

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gastrocoptidae</span> Family of gastropods

Gastrocoptidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

Labyrinthidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

<i>Gonostomopsis</i> Genus of gastropods

Gonostomopsis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae.

Zachrysiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Sagdoidea.

<i>Lucerna</i> (gastropod) Genus of gastropods

Lucerna is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Lucerninae of the family Pleurodontidae.

References

  1. 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. (Sagdinae is on page xxxii.)
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  3. Wade, Christopher M.; Mordan, Peter B.; Naggs, Fred (2006). "Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 593–610. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00596.x.
  4. Goodfriend, Glenn 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 (4): 367–398. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01341.x.
  5. Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.