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Enidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Enoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Scientific name
  
Enidae

Rank
  
Family

Enidae httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Similar
  
Chondrinidae, Vitrinidae, Hygromiidae, Ferussaciidae, Zebrina detrita

Enidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.

Contents

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 (according to the values in this table).

1998 taxonomy

The following subfamilies of Enidae are based on work by Schileyko (1998) and they are in use mainly by Russian malacologists:

  • subfamily Pseudonapaeinae
  • subfamily Chondrulopsininae
  • subfamily Merdigerinae
  • subfamily Buliminusinae
  • subfamily Andronakiinae
  • subfamily Retowskiinae
  • subfamily Eninae - including Chondrula
  • subfamily Multidentulini
  • 2005 taxonomy

    The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

  • subfamily Eninae B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880)
  • tribus Enini B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880) - synonyms: Napaeinae A. J. Wagner, 1928; Jaminiinae Thiele, 1931; Pseudonapaeinae Schileyko, 1978; Retowskiinae Schileyko, 1978; Andronakiinae Schileyko, 1998
  • tribus Chondrulini Wenz, 1923
  • tribus Multidentulini Schileyko, 1978 - synonyms: Chondrulopsininae Schileyko, 1978; Merdigerinae Schileyko, 1984; Euchondrinae Schileyko, 1998
  • subfamily Buliminusinae Kobelt, 1880 - synonym Buliminidae Pfeiffer, 1879
  • Genera

    Genera within the family Enidae include:

    subfamilia Eninae

  • Boninena Habe, 1956
  • either in Enini or in Chondrulini

  • Brephulopsis Lindholm, 1925
  • Caucasicola Hesse, 1917
  • Chondrus Cuvier, 1817
  • Georginapaeus Schileyko, 1988
  • Peristoma Krynicki, 1833
  • Ramusculus Lindholm, 1925
  • Thoanteus Lindholm, 1925
  • tribus Enini
  • Akramowskiella Schileyko, 1984
  • Andronakia Lindholm, 1914
  • Clausilioides Lindholm, 1925
  • Ayna Páll-Gergely, 2009
  • Differena Schileyko, 1984
  • Ena Turton, 1831 - type genus of the family Enidae
  • Geminula Lindholm, 1925
  • Imparietula Lindholm, 1925
  • Jaminia Risso, 1826
  • Laevozebrinus Lindholm, 1925
  • Ljudmilena Schileyko, 1984
  • Mastoides Westerlund, 1896
  • Megalena Hausdorf, 1999 There is only one species Megalena crassa (Retowski, 1887) in the genus Megalena.
  • Napaeus Albers, 1850
  • Ottorosenia Muratov, 1992
  • Pseudochondrula Hesse, 1933
  • Pseudonapaeus Westerlund, 1887
  • Retowskia O. Boettger, 1881
  • Subzebrinus Westerlund, 1887
  • Turanena Lindholm, 1922
  • tribus Chondrulini
  • Chondrula Beck, 1837 - type genus of the tribe Chondrulini
  • Mastus Beck, 1837
  • Zebrina Held, 1837
  • tribus Multidentulini
  • Chondrulopsina Lindholm, 1925
  • Euchondrus Boettger, 1883
  • Improvisa Schileyko, 1978
  • Multidentula Lindholm, 1925
  • Merdigera Held, 1837
  • Pentadentula Suvorov, 2006
  • Senaridenta Schileyko, 1978
  • Siraphoroides Schileyko, 1977
  • subfamily Buliminusinae

  • Adzharia Hesse, 1933
  • Buliminus Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Buliminusinae
  • Cyrenaeus Heller, 1971
  • Mordania Bank & Neubert, 1998
  • Paramastus Hesse, 1933
  • Pene Pallary, 1929
  • subfamily ?

  • Balearena Altaba, 2007 - type species † Balearena gymnesica Altaba, 2007
  • Luchuena Habe, 1956
  • References

    Enidae Wikipedia