Chondrinidae is a
family
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of mostly minute air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the order
Pulmonata.
Anatomy
In this family, the number of
haploid 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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'' 2539: 1-62. 22 plates
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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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