''Cyclophorus'' is a
genus
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of
operculate 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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s, terrestrial
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusks
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in the family
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
.
[Bank, R.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=833807 on 1 February 2018]
Selected species
Species in the genus ''Cyclophorus'' include:
* ''
Cyclophorus aurantiacus''
(Schumacher, 1817)
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Cyclophorus bensoni
''Cyclophorus bensoni'' is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaeniog ...
''
L. Pfeiffer, 1852
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Cyclophorus cantori
''Cyclophorus cantori'' is a species of gastropod belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaeniogl ...
''
(Benson, 1851)
* ''
Cyclophorus elegans
''Cyclophorus elegans'' is a species of small, air-breathing, land snail with an operculum, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with a ...
''
Moellendorff, 1881
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Cyclophorus expansus
''Cyclophorus expansus'' is a species of gastropod belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaeniog ...
''
L. Pfeiffer, 1852
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Cyclophorus fulguratus
''Cyclophorus fulguratus'' is a species of small land snail with an operculum, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, ...
''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1852)
* ''
Cyclophorus horridulum
†''Cyclophorus horridulum'' is an extinct species of small, air-breathing, land snails with an operculum, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclophoridae. This species was endemic to Mayotte
Mayotte ( ; , ; , ; , ), o ...
''
(Morelet, 1882)
* ''
Cyclophorus malayanus
''Cyclophorus malayanus'' is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaeni ...
''
(Benson, 1852)
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Cyclophorus phongnhakebangensis
''Cyclophorus phongnhakebangensis'' is a species of land snail from the family Cyclophoridae.
Description
''Cyclophorus phongnhakebangensis'' is a medium-sized '' Cyclophorus'' species with an overall rounded shell shape and a typically circular ...
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Oheimb, 2019
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Cyclophorus speciosus
''Cyclophorus speciosus'' is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaeni ...
''
(Philippi, 1847)
* ''
Cyclophorus volvulus
''Cyclophorus volvulus'' is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenio ...
''
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
* ''
Cyclophorus zebrinus
''Cyclophorus zebrinus'' is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenio ...
''
(Benson, 1836)
References
Montfort P. (Denys de). (1808–1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16* The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 1995 43(1): 91–113
* Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.
External links
* http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Cyclophorus
Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808–1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)].
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Gastropod genera