{{Short description|Family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Euglandina rosea.jpg | image_caption = A live individual of ''Euglandina rosea'' | taxon = Spiraxidae | authority = H. B. Baker, 1939 | type_genus = Spiraxis | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''See text'' | synonyms = | diversity_link = | diversity_ref = <ref name="Thompson 2010"/> | diversity = over 260 species in Central America + some more in South America }}
'''Spiraxidae''' is a family of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the superfamily Testacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
== Distribution == The distribution of this family is Neotropical.<ref name="Thompson 2010"/>
== Taxonomy ==
=== 2005 taxonomy === The family Spiraxidae is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).<ref name="Bouchet 2005"/>
The family Spiraxidae consists of the following subfamilies: * Spiraxinae H. B. Baker, 1939 * Micromeninae Schileyko, 2000
=== 2010 taxonomy === Thompson (2010)<ref name="Thompson 2010">{{Cite journal | last1 = Thompson | first1 = F. G. | title = Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae) | journal = Revista de Biología Tropical | volume = 58 | issue = 1 | pages = 195–202 | year = 2010 | pmid = 20411717 | doi=10.15517/rbt.v58i1.5204 | url = https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/download/5204/5004 | doi-access = free }}, [http://www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol58-1/15-Thompson-land-snails-costa-rica-panama.pdf PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629182603/http://www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol58-1/15-Thompson-land-snails-costa-rica-panama.pdf |date=2011-06-29 }}.</ref> redefined subfamilies in the Spiraxidae, moving Euglandininae and Streptostylinae to become subfamilies of Spiraxidae. According to their work, there are three subfamilies within the Spiraxidae:
* Spiraxinae H. B. Baker, 1939 - including ''Micromena'' * Euglandininae H. B. Baker, 1941 * Streptostylinae H. B. Baker, 1941
Apparently this system of classification is not universally accepted, as Fauna Europaea uses different systematics for the subfamily Euglandininae, still placing it within the family Oleacinidae.<ref name="Poiretia P. Fischer 1883">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122259/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=429912 "''Poiretia'' P. Fischer 1883"]. Fauna Europaea, accessed 17 January 2011.</ref>
==Genera == Genera in the family Spiraxidae include:
Subfamily Spiraxinae include seven<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> genera: * ''Mayaxis'' Thompson, 1995<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> * ''Micromena'' H. B. Baker, 1939<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> - this was the type genus of the subfamily Micromeninae * ''Miraradula'' Baker, 1939<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> * ''Pseudosubulina'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> * ''Rectaxis'' Baker, 1926<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> * ''Spiraxis'' C. B. Adams, 1850<ref name="Thompson 2010"/> - type genus of family Spiraxidae * ''Volutaxis'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882<ref name="Thompson 2010"/>
Subfamily Euglandininae * ''Euglandina'' Crosse & P. Fischer, 1870 - type genus of the subfamily Euglandininae<ref name="Bouchet 2005">{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref> * ''Guillarmodia'' H. B. Baker, 1941<ref name="Thompson 2008">Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). [http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/mexico-central_america_snail_checklist/index.htm "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA"]. [http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/mexico-central_america_snail_checklist/part4.htm "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)"]. accessed 14 January 2011.</ref> * ''Pittieria'' von Martens, 1901<ref name="Thompson 2008"/> * ''Poiretia'' Fischer, 1883<ref name="Poiretia P. Fischer 1883"/> * ''Varicoglandina'' Pilsbry, 1908<ref name="Thompson 2008"/> * ''Varicoturris'' Pilsbry, 1907<ref name="Thompson 2008"/>
Subfamily Streptostylinae * ''Myxastyla'' Thompson, 1995<ref name="Thompson 2008"/> * ''Oryzosoma'' Pilsbry, 1891<ref name="Thompson 2008"/> * ''Salasiella'' Strebel, 1877<ref name="Thompson 2008"/> * ''Strebelia'' Crosse & Fischer, 1868<ref name="Thompson 2008"/> * ''Streptostyla'' Shuttleworth, 1852<ref name="Thompson 2008"/><!-- include subgenus * ''Rectoleacina'' Pilsbry, 1907--> - type genus of the subfamily Streptostylinae
== Ecology == These land snails are carnivorous and predatory.<ref name="Thompson 2010"/>
==References== {{Commons category|Spiraxidae}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Spiraxidae Category:Taxa named by Horace Burrington Baker