Sagdidae

Sagdidae
	Two adult shells and one juvenile shell of Sagda alligans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Sagdoidea
Family:	Sagdidae; Pilsbry, 1895
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]

Anatomy

Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.

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

Genera in the family Sagdidae include:^[5]

The type genus is Sagda Beck, 1837.

^ 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.)
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Sagdidae. Discover Life, accessed 6 December 2008.

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)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (4): 697–728. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx082.Error: "Q2211670" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.

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