Enidae


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

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25.

Taxonomy

1998 taxonomy

The following subfamilies of Enidae are based on work by Schileyko and they are in use mainly by Russian malacologists:
  • 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
  • * tribus Enini B. B. Woodward, 1903 - 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 EninaeBoninena Habe, 1956
either in Enini or in ChondruliniBrephulopsis Lindholm, 1925Caucasicola Hesse, 1917Chondrus Cuvier, 1817Georginapaeus Schileyko, 1988Peristoma Krynicki, 1833Ramusculus Lindholm, 1925Thoanteus Lindholm, 1925
subfamily BuliminusinaeBuliminus Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily BuliminusinaeCyrenaeus Heller, 1971Mordania Bank & Neubert, 1998Paramastus Hesse, 1933Pene Pallary, 1929
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