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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
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

• 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

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.