Enidae
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| Enidae | |
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| A live individual of Ena montana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Enidae B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880) |
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Enidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 (according to the values in this table).[2]
Taxonomy
1998 taxonomy
The following subfamilies of Enidae are based on work by Schileyko (1998)[3] and they are in use mainly by Russian malacologists:[4]
- subfamily Pseudonapaeinae
- subfamily Chondrulopsininae
- subfamily Merdigerinae
- subfamily Buliminusinae
- subfamily Andronakiinae
- subfamily Retowskiinae
- subfamily Eninae - including Chondrula
- subfamily Multidentulini
2005 taxonomy
The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- subfamily Eninae B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880)
- tribus Enini B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880) - synonyms: Napaeinae A. J. Wagner, 1928; Jaminiinae Thiele, 1931; Pseudonapaeinae Schileyko, 1978; Retowskiinae Schileyko, 1978; Andronakiinae Schileyko, 1998
- tribus Chondrulini Wenz, 1923
- tribus Multidentulini Schileyko, 1978 - synonyms: Chondrulopsininae Schileyko, 1978; Merdigerinae Schileyko, 1984; Euchondrinae Schileyko, 1998
- subfamily Buliminusinae Kobelt, 1880 - synonym Buliminidae Pfeiffer, 1879
