Enidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]
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In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 (according to the values in this table).[2]
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 within the family Enidae include:
subfamilia Eninae
either in Enini or in Chondrulini[clarification needed]
- Brephulopsis Lindholm, 1925[4]
- Caucasicola Hesse, 1917[4]
- Chondrus Cuvier, 1817[4]
- Georginapaeus Schileyko, 1988[4]
- Peristoma Krynicki, 1833[4]
- Ramusculus Lindholm, 1925[4]
- Thoanteus Lindholm, 1925[4]
- tribus Enini
- Akramowskiella Schileyko, 1984[4]
- Andronakia Lindholm, 1914[4]
- Apoecus Möllendorff, 1902
- Ayna Páll-Gergely, 2009[5]
- Clausilioides Lindholm, 1925[4]
- Differena Schileyko, 1984[4]
- Ena Turton, 1831[4] - type genus of the family Enidae
- Geminula Lindholm, 1925[4]
- Imparietula Lindholm, 1925[4]
- Jaminia Risso, 1826
- Laevozebrinus Lindholm, 1925[4]
- Ljudmilena Schileyko, 1984[4]
- Mastoides Westerlund, 1896[4][6]
- Megalena Hausdorf, 1999[7] There is only one species Megalena crassa (Retowski, 1887) in the genus Megalena.
- Mirus Albers, 1850
- Napaeus Albers, 1850
- Napaeopsis Sturany & Wagner, 1914[8]
- Ottorosenia Muratov, 1992[4]
- Petraeomastus Möllendorff, 1901
- Pseudochondrula Hesse, 1933[4]
- Pseudonapaeus Westerlund, 1887[4]
- Retowskia O. Boettger, 1881[4]
- Subzebrinus Westerlund, 1887[4]
- Turanena Lindholm, 1922[4]
- tribus Chondrulini
- tribus Multidentulini
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
Schileyko A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 2. Gastrocoptidea, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellinidae, Pachynodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. Ruthenica Supplement 2(2): 129-261.
Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V.(published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3. Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
Páll-Gergely, Barna (2009). "REVISION OF THE TURKISH RAMUSCULUS TAXA WITH DESCRIPTION OF AYNA GEN. NOV. (GASTROPODA: PULMONATA: ENIDAE)". 40 (1): 73–77.
Schileyko A. A. (2007). "On the genus Mastoides Westerlund, 1896 (Pulmonata, Enidae)". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 85-87. abstract.
Altaba C. R. (2007). "A new genus and species of Enidae (Gastopoda (sic!): Pulmonata) from the Quaternary of the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)". Zootaxa 1595: 43-52. first page only.
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