Chondrula
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Chondrula tridens shell.png
| image_caption = Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Chondrula tridens
| taxon = Chondrula
| authority = Beck, 1837Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum præsentis ævi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. pp. 1-100 [1837], 101-124 [1838]. Hafniae. [http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/digiref/ref-id-73.pdf PDF], page 87.
| type_species= Helix tridens O.F. Müller, 1774
| synonyms =
- Buliminus (Chondrula) Beck, 1837
- Buliminus (Chondrulus) Westerlund, 1887
- Chondrulus Westerlund, 1887
- Dentistomus M. Kimakowicz, 1890
- Eucore Charpentier, 1837
- Gonodon Held, 1838
- Odontalus Parreyss, 1849
- Pupa (Chondrula) Beck, 1837 (original combination)
- Tridensiana Caziot, 1910
}}
Chondrula is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae. MolluscaBase (2018). Chondrula H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818170 on 2018-12-26
Chondrula is the type genus of the tribe Chondrulini.{{Bouchet 2005}}
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Chondrula ranges from Europe and northern Africa and to Iran.[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=622 ""]. AnimalBase, last update 29 January 2009, accessed 11 June 2012.
Species
Species within the genus Chondrula include:
- Chondrula albolimbata (Pfeiffer, 1859)
- Chondrula beieri Klemm, 1962 - from Greece
- Chondrula bergeri (Roth, 1839)
- Chondrula bicallosa (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Chondrula consentanea (Westerlund, 1887) - from the Balkans
- Chondrula diodon (Retowski, 1883)
- Chondrula jaczewskii (Wagner, 1928)
- Chondrula lugorensis Wagner, 1914 - from the Balkans
- Chondrula lycaonica (Sturany, 1904) - from Turkey
- Chondrula macedonica Wagner, 1914
- Chondrula microtragus (Rossmässler, 1839)
- Chondrula mletaki Lajtner, 1993
- Chondrula munita (Westerlund, 1894) - synonym: Chondrula minuta, from Greece
- Chondrula orientalis (Pfeiffer, 1848) - from Turkey
- Chondrula pindica (Westerlund, 1894) - from Greece
- Chondrula pupa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Chondrula quinquedentata (Rossmässler, 1837)
- Chondrula sturmii (Küster, 1852) - from Turkey
- Chondrula tricuspidata (Küster, 1843)
- Chondrula tridens (O. F. Müller, 1774) - type species[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=2526 ""]. AnimalBase, accessed 11 June 2012.
- Chondrula vaderi Gittenberger, 1967
- Chondrula werneri (Sturany, 1902) - from Turkey
;synonyms:
- Chondrula nachicevanjensis Hudec, 1972: synonym of Multidentula nachicevanjensis (Hudec, 1972)
- Chondrula peloponnesica Gittenberger, 1984 is a synonym of Mastus peloponnesicus (Gittenberger, 1984)
- Chondrula pupa (Linnaeus, 1758) is a synonym of Mastus pupa (Linnaeus, 1758)