Chondrinidae

Chondrinidae
	8 shells of Chondrina avenacea, scale in mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Chondrinidae; Steenberg, 1925
Genera
	see text
Diversity
	about 70 extant species in six genera plus 4 new species in 2010

Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata.

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).^[3]

According to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Chondrinidae has no subfamilies.

Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger (2010)^[2] established a new subfamily to system of Chondrinidae:^[2]

Alloglossa Lindström, 1868: synonym of Chondrina Reichenbach, 1828 (objective junior synonym)
Avenacea Fagot, 1891: synonym of Chondrina Reichenbach, 1828 (objective junior synonym)
Modicella H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Chondrina Reichenbach, 1828
Pupella Swainson, 1840: synonym of Granaria Held, 1838
Sandahlia Westerlund, 1887: synonym of Abida W. Turton, 1831
Stomodonta Mermet, 1843: synonym of Abida W. Turton, 1831
Torquilla S. Studer, 1820: synonym of Abida W. Turton, 1831 (homonym; non Torquilla Brisson, 1760 [Aves])

^ 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
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ 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.