Cyclophoridae

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Cyclophoridae
A live but withdrawn individual of Leptopoma nitidum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group "Architaenioglossa"
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Gray, 1847
Subfamilies

Alycaeinae
Cyclophorinae
Spirostomatinae

Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Architaenioglossa belonging to the clade Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Taxonomy and systematics

This family consists of the following subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, which adapted the tribes of Cyclophorinae from the system used by Wenz (1938).[1] Some notable genera are also listed:

Subfamily Alycaeinae Blanford, 1864[2]

Subfamily Cyclophorinae Gray, 1847

Subfamily Spirostomatinae Tielecke, 1940

  • Spirostoma

Subfamily to be determined

Incertae sedes

References

  1. (German) Wenz W. (1938-1944) Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. In: Schindewolf O. H. (ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda, Verlag Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin, xii + 1639 pp.
  2. Blanford W. T. (June 1864) Annals of Magazine of Natural History serie 3, 13: page 465.
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