Chondrinidae

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

Chondrinidae
8 shells of Chondrina avenacea, scale in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Chondrinidae
Steenberg, 1925
Genera
see text
Diversity[1][2]
about 70 extant species in six genera plus 4 new species in 2010

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
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 [Aves])

References
  1. 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
  2. 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.
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