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 and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea. Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.

Anatomy

Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.

Subfamilies and genera

The family Sagdidae consists of the following subfamilies:

• 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:

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

External links

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