Trochomorphidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Trochomorphoidea
Family:	Trochomorphidae Möllendorff, 1890[1]
Genera
See text
Synonyms[2]
Geotrochidae Schileyko, 2002

Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has been revised and it now belongs to the superfamily Trochomorphoidea^[3][2]

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of Trochomorphidae includes eastern-Palearctic, India, south-eastern Asia, Australia and Polynesia.^[4]

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).^[5]

Genera

Genera within the family Trochomorphidae include:

• Benthemia Forcart, 1964
• Brazieria Ancey, 1887
• Calostropha Ancey, 1887
• Coxia Ancey, 1887
• Dendrotrochus Pilsbry, 1894
• Entomostoma H. B. Baker, 1941
• Eurybasis Gude, 1913
• Foxidonta Clench, 1950
• Geodiscus Iredale, 1941
• Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823
• Hogolua Baker, 1941
• Kondoa Baker, 1941
• Liravidena Solem, 1959
• Orpiella L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855
• Peleliua H. B. Baker, 1941
• Probrazieria H. B. Baker, 1941
• Tegumen Gude, 1913
• Theskelomensor Iredale, 1933
• Trochomorpha Albers, 1850 - type genus of the family Trochomorphidae
• Trochositala Schileyko, 2002
• Videna A. Adams 1858
• Videnoida Minato, 1988
• Vitrinoconus C. Semper, 1873

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:^[4]

References

Further reading

• Baker (1941). Bulletin of the Bishop Museum 116: 273.
• Gude G. K. (1914). Mollusca.−II. (Trochomorphidae--Janellidae)''.The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. London, xii + 520 pp., 164 figs.
• Vagvolvyi J. (1976). "Body size, aerial dispersal and origin of the Pacific land snail fauna". Syst. Zool 24: 465-488.