- Chronidae
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Chronidae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid cladeSuperfamily: Gastrodontoidea Family: Chronidae
Thiele, 1931Genera See text
Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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Distribution
Distribution of Chronidae include eastern-Palearctic, Ethiopian, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesian.[1]
Genera
Genera within the family Chronidae include:
- Chronos Robson, 1914 - type genus of the family Chronidae
- Nesokaliella Gerlach - endemic to the Seychelles
- Nesokaliella minuta Baker
- Nesokaliella intermedia Pfeiffer
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with the other families within the limacoid clade:[1]
limacoid clade Staffordioidea Dyakioidea Gastrodontoidea Chronidae
Parmacelloidea Zonitoidea Helicarionoidea Limacoidea References
- ^ a b Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
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