Chondrinidae

Chondrinidae
8 shells of Chondrina avenacea, scale in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Chondrinidae Steenberg, 1925
Genera
see text
Diversity
about 70 extant species in six genera[1] plus 4 new species in 2010[2]

Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata.

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).^[3]

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Chondrinidae has no subfamilies.

2010 taxonomy

Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger (2010)^[2] established a new subfamily to system of Chondrinidae:^[2]

• subfamily Chondrininae
• subfamily Granariinae

Genera

There are six genera within the family Chondrinidae and they include:^[4]

• Abida Turton, 1831
• Chondrina Reichenbach, 1828
• Granaria Held, 1838
• Granopupa Boettger, 1889
• Rupestrella Monterosato, 1894
• Solatopupa Pilsbry, 1917

References

1. ^ Kokshoorn B. (3 December 2008). "Resolving riddles and presenting new puzzles in Chondrinidae phylogenetics". Doctoral thesis, Leiden University, ISBN 9789071382567. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/13342?mode=more
2. ^ ^{a b c} Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zootaxa 2539: 1-62. 22 plates. preview.
3. ^ 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, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
4. ^ Genera in family Chondrinidae [n = 6]. AnimalBase, accessed 16 April 2009.