Chondrinidae
Family of gastropods
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Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata.
| Chondrinidae | |
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| 8 shells of Chondrina avenacea, scale in mm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Chondrinidae Steenberg, 1925 |
| Genera | |
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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
- 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 [Aves])
