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).

Taxonomy

1998 taxonomy

The following subfamilies of Enidae are based on work by Schileyko (1998) 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 (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

Genera within the family Enidae include:

subfamilia Eninae

• Boninena Habe, 1956

either in Enini or in Chondrulini

• Brephulopsis Lindholm, 1925

• Caucasicola Hesse, 1917

• Chondrus Cuvier, 1817

• Georginapaeus Schileyko, 1988

• Peristoma Krynicki, 1833

• Ramusculus Lindholm, 1925

• Thoanteus Lindholm, 1925

tribus Enini

• Akramowskiella Schileyko, 1984

• Andronakia Lindholm, 1914

• Apoecus Möllendorff, 1902

• Ayna Páll-Gergely, 2009

• Clausilioides Lindholm, 1925

• Differena Schileyko, 1984

• Ena Turton, 1831 - type genus of the family Enidae

• Geminula Lindholm, 1925

• Imparietula Lindholm, 1925

• Jaminia Risso, 1826

• Laevozebrinus Lindholm, 1925

• Ljudmilena Schileyko, 1984

• Mastoides Westerlund, 1896

• Megalena Hausdorf, 1999 There is only one species Megalena crassa (Retowski, 1887) in the genus Megalena.

• Mirus Albers, 1850

• Napaeus Albers, 1850

• Napaeopsis Sturany & Wagner, 1914

• Ottorosenia Muratov, 1992

• Petraeomastus Möllendorff, 1901

• Pseudochondrula Hesse, 1933

• Pseudonapaeus Westerlund, 1887

• Retowskia O. Boettger, 1881

• Subzebrinus Westerlund, 1887

• Turanena Lindholm, 1922

tribus Chondrulini

• Chondrula Beck, 1837 - type genus of the tribe Chondrulini

• Leucomastus Wagner, 1928

• Mastus Beck, 1837

• Meijeriella Bank, 1985

• Rhabdoena Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1902

• Zebrina Held, 1837

tribus Multidentulini

• Chondrulopsina Lindholm, 1925

• Euchondrus Boettger, 1883

• Improvisa Schileyko, 1978

• Multidentula Lindholm, 1925

• Merdigera Held, 1837

• Pentadentula Suvorov, 2006

• Senaridenta Schileyko, 1978

• Siraphoroides Schileyko, 1977

subfamily Buliminusinae

• Buliminus Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Buliminusinae

• Cyrenaeus Heller, 1971

• Mordania Bank & Neubert, 1998

• Paramastus Hesse, 1933

• Pene Pallary, 1929

subfamily ?

• † Balearena Altaba, 2007 - type species † Balearena gymnesica Altaba, 2007

• Luchuena Habe, 1956

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