Overview
Cyclophoroidea is a superfamily of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropods within the informal group Architaenioglossa, that belongs to the clade Caenogastropoda.
These terrestrial gastropods have lost the ctenidium (comb-like respiratory apparatus) and osphradium, and the pallial cavity has been modified as a lung.
According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), this superfamily consists of nine families :
- Family Aciculidae Gray, 1850
- Family Craspedopomatidae Kobelt & M?llendorff, 1898
- Family Cyclophoridae Gray, 1847
- Subfamily Cyclophorinae Gray, 1847
- Tribe Caspicyclotini Wenz, 1938
- Tribe Cyathopomatini Kobelt & M?llendorff, 1897
- Tribe Cyclophorini Gray, 1847
- Tribe Cyclotini Pfeiffer, 18 53
- Tribe Pterocyclini Kobelt & M?llendorff, 1897
- Subfamily Alycaeinae Blanfoird, 1864
- Subfamily Spirostomatinae Tielecke, 1940
- Subfamily Cyclophorinae Gray, 1847
- Family Diplommatinidae Pfeiffer, 1857
- Subfamily Cochlostomatinae Kobelt, 1902
- Subfamily Diplommatininae Pfeiffer, 1857
- ? Family Ferussinidae Wenz, 1923 (1915)
- Family Maizaniidae Tielecke, 1940
- Family Megalomastomatidae Blanford, 1864
- Family Neocyclotidae Kobelt & M?llendorff, 1897
- Subfamily Amphicyclotinae Kobelt & M?llendorff, 1897
- Subfamily Neocyclotinae Kobelt & M?llendorff, 1897
- Family Pupinidae Pfeiffer, 1853
- Subfamily Liareinae Powell, 1946
- Subfamily Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902
- Subfamily Pupininae Pfeiffer, 1853
References
Taxonomy
The Superfamily Cyclophoroidea is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (10): Aciculidae · Craspedopomatidae · Cyclophoridae · Diplommatinidae · Ferussinidae · Maizaniidae · Megalomastomatidae · Neocyclotidae · Pomatiidae · Pupinidae
Families
Aciculidae
The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula. (An operculum is a little door that closes the shell when the animal retracts into it.) In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods. Even though Aciculidae are land snails, they live in rather wet conditions, among mosses and dead leaves and they have sometimes been described as "winkles come ashore". [more]
Craspedopomatidae
Craspedopomatidae is a family of very small land snails with a gill and 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). [more]
Cyclophoridae
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). [more]
Diplommatinidae
Diplommatinidae is a family of small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoridae. [more]
Ferussinidae
Maizaniidae
Megalomastomatidae
Neocyclotidae
Neocyclotidae is a family of tropical land snails with gills and 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). [more]
Pomatiidae
Pupinidae
Pupinidae is a taxonomic family of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [more]
At least 122 species and subspecies belong to the Family Pupinidae.
More info about the Family Pupinidae may be found here.
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