Cyclophoroidea is a superfamily of

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known ...

s with an operculum, terrestrial gastropods within the informal group

Architaenioglossa Architaenioglossa is a taxonomic group of snails which have gills and often an operculum. They are primarily land and freshwater gastropod mollusks within the clade Caenogastropoda. This " informal group" has been shown to be polyphyletic in a ...

, that belongs to the

clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English ter ...

Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails. The clade is the most diverse and ecologically successfu ...

.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2015). Cyclophoroidea Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153654 on 2015-02-16 These terrestrial gastropods have lost the ctenidium (comb-like respiratory apparatus) and osphradium, and the

pallial cavity The mantle (also known by the Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of ...

has been modified as a

lung The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and most other animals, including some snails and a small number of fish. In mammals and most other vertebrates, two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of ...

Taxonomy

According to the

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks. (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and s ...

, this superfamily consists of the following families : *Family

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 Aciculid ...

Gray, 1850 * Family

Cochlostomatidae Cochlostomatinae are a family of small land snails which have operculums and gills. These are terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea.Bouchet, P. (2015). Cochlostomatidae Kobelt, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of ...

Kobelt, 1902 *Family

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 ...

Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898 *Family Cyclophoridae Gray, 1847 **Subfamily Cyclophorinae Gray, 1847 *** Tribe Caspicyclotini Wenz, 1938 *** Tribe Cyathopomatini Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 *** Tribe Cyclophorini Gray, 1847 *** Tribe Cyclotini Pfeiffer, 1853 *** Tribe Pterocyclini Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 **Subfamily Alycaeinae Blanfoird, 1864 **Subfamily Spirostomatinae Tielecke, 1940 *Family Diplommatinidae Pfeiffer, 1857 **Subfamily Diplommatininae Pfeiffer, 1857 *

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Family

Ferussinidae †Ferussinidae is an extinct family of operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the informal group Architaenioglossa Architaenioglossa is a taxonomic group of snails which have gills and often an operculum. They are primar ...

Wenz, 1923 (1915) *Family Maizaniidae Tielecke, 1940 *Family Megalomastomatidae Blanford, 1864 *Family

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 Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade, a larg ...

Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 **Subfamily Amphicyclotinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 **Subfamily Neocyclotinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 *Family

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).MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. ...

Pfeiffer, 1853 **Subfamily Liareinae Powell, 1946 **Subfamily Pupinellinae Kobelt, 1902 **Subfamily Pupininae Pfeiffer, 1853 ;Families brought into synonymy: * Acmeidae Pollonera, 1905: synonym of Aciculidae Gray, 1850 * Alycaeidae Blanford, 1864: synonym of Cyclophoridae Gray, 1847 * Bolaniidae Wenz, 1915: synonym of Craspedopomatidae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898 * Dicristidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975: synonym of Neocyclotidae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 * Lagocheilidae Stoliczka, 1872: synonym of Cyclophoroidea Gray, 1847 * † Strophostomatidae Wenz, 1915: synonym of † Ferussinidae Wenz, 1923 (1915)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3008564 Architaenioglossa Taxa named by John Edward Gray