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]
Anatomy
Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.
Subfamilies and genera
The family Sagdidae consists of the following subfamilies:[2]
- Aquebaninae H. B. Baker, 1940
- Platysuccineinae H. B. Baker, 1940
- Polydontinae Schileyko, 2006
- Sagdinae Pilsbry, 1895
- Yunqueinae Schileyko, 1998
Genera in the family Sagdidae include:[5]
The type genus is Sagda Beck, 1837.
References
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^ 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.)
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^ a b 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.