Cyclophoroidea Explained

Cyclophoroidea is a superfamily of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropods within the informal group Architaenioglossa, that belongs to the clade Caenogastropoda.^[1]

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 :

• Family Aciculidae Gray, 1850
• Family Cochlostomatidae Kobelt, 1902
• Family Craspedopomatidae 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
• † Family Ferussinidae Wenz, 1923 (1915)
• Family Maizaniidae Tielecke, 1940
• Family Megalomastomatidae Blanford, 1864
• Family Neocyclotidae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
  • Subfamily Amphicyclotinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
  • Subfamily Neocyclotinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
• Family Pupinidae 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)

Notes and References

1. 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