Chondrinidae
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| 8 shells of Chondrina avenacea, scale in mm | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Chondrinidae Steenberg, 1925
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| Diversity[1][2] | |
| about 70 extant species in six genera plus 4 new species in 2010 | |
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
- ^ Kokshoorn B. (3 December 2008). "Resolving riddles and presenting new puzzles in Chondrinidae phylogenetics". Doctoral thesis, Leiden University, ISBN 978-90-71382-56-7. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/13342?mode=more
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Genera in family Chondrinidae [n = 6]. AnimalBase, accessed 16 April 2009.
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