Enidae

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Enidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]

Phylum:Mollusca
Superfamily:Pupilloidea
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Enidae
A live individual of Ena montana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Enidae
B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880)
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Anatomy

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

Genera

Genera within the family Enidae include:

subfamilia Eninae

either in Enini or in Chondrulini[clarification needed]

subfamily Buliminusinae

  • Buliminus Beck, 1837[4] - type genus of the subfamily Buliminusinae
  • Cyrenaeus Heller, 1971
  • Mordania Bank & Neubert, 1998
  • Paramastus Hesse, 1933
  • Pene Pallary, 1929

subfamily ?

  • Balearena Altaba, 2007[12] - type species † Balearena gymnesica Altaba, 2007[12]
  • Luchuena Habe, 1956

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