Enidae

Enidae
A live individual of Ena montana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Enoidea
Family: Enidae
B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880)
Genera

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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 (according to the values in this table).[1]

Taxonomy

1998 taxonomy

The following subfamilies of Enidae are based on work by Schileyko (1998)[2] and they are in use mainly by Russian malacologists:[3]

2005 taxonomy

The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

Genera

Genera within the family Enidae include:

subfamilia Eninae

either in Enini or in Chondrulini

subfamily Buliminusinae

subfamily ?

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 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.
  4. Páll-Gergely, Barna (2009). "REVISION OF THE TURKISH RAMUSCULUS TAXA WITH DESCRIPTION OF AYNA GEN. NOV. (GASTROPODA: PULMONATA: ENIDAE)" 40 (1). pp. 73–77.
  5. Schileyko A. A. (2007). "On the genus Mastoides Westerlund, 1896 (Pulmonata, Enidae)". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 85-87. abstract.
  6. Hausdorf H. (1999) "A new genus of the Buliminidae from Turkey (Gastropoda: S tylommatophora)" Journal of Natural History 33: 149-154. PDF
  7. 7.0 7.1 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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