Sagdidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of air-breathing land snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea  and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea

Helicoidea

Helicoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.-Families:There are 19 families within the superfamily Helicoidea according to Bouchet & Rocroi .* Helicidae...

. Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.

Subfamilies and genera

The family Sagdidae consists of four subfamilies :

• Sagdinae Pilsbry, 1895
• Aquebaninae H. B. Baker, 1940
• Platysuccineinae H. B. Baker, 1940
• Yunqueinae Schileyko, 1998

Genera in the family Sagdidae include:

The type

Type

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 genus is Sagda

Sagda

Sagda is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Sagdidae.- Species :Species in the genus Sagda include:* Sagda adamsiana* Sagda alligans* Sagda alveare* Sagda anodon...

 Beck, 1837.

• Aerotrochus
• Aquebana
• Corneosagda
• Hojeda
• Hyalosagda
  Hyalosagda
  Hyalosagda is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Sagdidae.- Species :Species in the genus Hyalosagda include:* Hyalosagda arboreoides* Hyalosagda hollandi...
  
  
• Lacteoluna
• Meiophysema
• Microsagda
• Odontosagda - Odontosagda blandii
  Odontosagda blandii
  Odontosagda blandii is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sagdidae....
  
  
• Platysuccinea
• Proserpinula
• Sagda
  Sagda
  Sagda is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Sagdidae.- Species :Species in the genus Sagda include:* Sagda adamsiana* Sagda alligans* Sagda alveare* Sagda anodon...
  
  
• Stauroglypta
• Strialuna
• Suavitas
• Trifaux
• Vilitas
• Volvidens
• Xenodiscula
  Xenodiscula
  Xenodiscula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Sagdidae.- Species :There is only one species in the genus Xenodiscula:* Xenodiscula taintori...
  
  
• Zaphysema

External links

• Gary Rosenberg & Igor V. Muratov. Recent terrestrial molluscs of Jamaica