Ena Turton, 1831

Hausdorf, B, 2001, The genus Ena in Turkey, with remarks on its phylogenetic relationships (Gastropoda: Buliminidae), Journal of Natural History 35, pp. 1627-1638 : 1629

Genus Ena Turton, 1831

Ena Turton, 1831: 80 . Type species (Herrmannsen, 1847: 421): Bulimus montanus D raparnaud, 1801.

Diagnosis. A genus of Buliminidae which is characterized by a large, brownish, elongated oval shell without apertural teeth, the palatal insertion of the peristome which does not distinctly approach to the columellar edge, a usually well-developed imperforate penial papilla (which is rudimentary only in Ena dazimonensis sp. n.; see below), a penial appendix, the lack of a penial caecum, a caecum at the middle section of the epiphallus, a more or less short agellum, and a diverticulum to the bursa copulatrix.