Chondrinidae is a
family
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of mostly minute air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the order
Pulmonata.
Anatomy
In this family, the number of
haploid
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chromosome
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s lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).
[Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: ''Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): ]
The biology of terrestrial molluscs
'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
According to the
taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Chondrinidae has no subfamilies.
2010 taxonomy
Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger (2010)
established a new subfamily to system of Chondrinidae:
[Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". '']Zootaxa
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* subfamily Chondrininae
* subfamily
Granariinae
Genera
* ''
Abida''
Turton, 1831
* ''
Chondrina''
Reichenbach, 1828
* ''
Granaria''
Held, 1838
* ''
Graniberia''
E. Gittenberger, Kokshoorn, Bössneck, Reijnen & Groenenberg, 2016
* ''
Granopupa''
Boettger, 1889
* ''
Rupestrella''
Monterosato, 1894
* ''
Solatopupa''
Pilsbry, 1917
;Synonyms:
* ''Alloglossa''
Lindström, 1868: synonym of ''Chondrina''
Reichenbach, 1828 (objective junior synonym)
* ''Avenacea''
Fagot, 1891: synonym of ''Chondrina''
Reichenbach, 1828 (objective junior synonym)
* ''Modicella''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of ''Chondrina''
Reichenbach, 1828
* ''Pupella''
Swainson, 1840: synonym of ''Granaria''
Held, 1838
* ''Sandahlia''
Westerlund, 1887: synonym of ''Abida''
W. Turton, 1831
* ''Stomodonta''
Mermet, 1843: synonym of ''Abida''
W. Turton, 1831
* ''Torquilla''
S. Studer, 1820: synonym of ''Abida''
W. Turton, 1831 (homonym; non Torquilla Brisson, 1760
ves
References
External links
Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397.
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Gastropod families