Chondrinidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of mostly minute air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata

Pulmonata

The Pulmonata, or "pulmonates", are an informal group of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills...

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Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosome

Chromosome

A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein found in cells. It is a single piece of coiled DNA containing many genes, regulatory elements and other nucleotide sequences. Chromosomes also contain DNA-bound proteins, which serve to package the DNA and control its functions.Chromosomes...

s lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

 the family Chondrinidae has no subfamilies.

2010 taxonomy

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

• subfamily Chondrininae
• subfamily Granariinae

Genera

There are six genera within the family Chondrinidae and they include:

• Abida Turton, 1831
• Chondrina
  Chondrina
  Chondrina is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.All species of Chondrina are restricted to the West Palaearctic. Centers of species diversity are found on the Iberian peninsula, in northern Italy and in the Balkans...
  
  Reichenbach, 1828
• Granaria
  Granaria
  Granaria is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.-Species:Species within the genus Granaria include:* Granaria arabica...
  
  Held, 1838
• Granopupa Boettger, 1889
• Rupestrella Monterosato, 1894
• Solatopupa
  Solatopupa
  Solatopupa is a genus of land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.- Distribution :The distribution the genus Solatopupa is peri-Tyrrhenian, that mean around Tyrrhenian Sea.- Species :...
  
  Pilsbry, 1917