Rank Superfamily | Scientific name Cyclophoroidea Higher classification Mesogastropoda | |
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Lower classifications Cyclophoridae, Maizaniidae, Poteriidae, Liareidae, Cochlostoma canestrinii, Liareinae |
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.
Taxonomy
According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), this superfamily consists of the following families :
References
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