Sagdidae
| Sagdidae | |
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| Two adult shells and one juvenile shell of Sagda alligans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Sagdidae Pilsbry, 1895[1]
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| Type genus | |
| Sagda | |
Sagdidae is a
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.
- Aerotrochus
- Aquebana
- Corneosagda
- Granodomus Wurtz, 1955
- Hispaniolana Pilsbry, 1933
- Hojeda
- Hyalosagda
- Lacteoluna
- Meiophysema
- Microsagda
- Odontosagda - Odontosagda blandii
- Platysuccinea
- Proserpinula
- Sagda
- Stauroglypta
- Strialuna
- Suavitas
- Trifaux
- Vilitas
- Volvidens
- Xenodiscula
- Zaphysema
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. (Sagdinae is on page xxxii.)
- ^ ISSN 0076-2997.
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- ^ Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sagdidae.
- Gary Rosenberg & Igor V. Muratov. Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica
- Sei, Makiri; Robinson, David G.; Geneva, Anthony J.; Rosenberg, Gary (2017). "Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". .