Cyclophoridae

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Orthogastropoda
Superordo: Caenogastropoda
Ordo: Architaenioglossa
Superfamilia: Cyclophoroidea
Familia: 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).

Taxonomy

This family consists of the following subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, which adapted the tribes of Cyclophorinae from the system used by Wenz (1938)[1]:

subfamily Cyclophorinae Gray, 1847
tribe Cyclophorini Gray, 1847 - synonyms: Aulopomatinae Gray, 1857; Lagocheilidae Stoliczka, 1872
tribe Caspicyclotini Wenz, 1938[1]
tribe Cyathopomatini Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
tribe Cyclotini Pfeiffer, 1853
tribe Pterocyclini Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
subfamily Alycaeinae Blanford, 1864[2]
subfamily Spirostomatinae Tielecke, 1940

Genera

Genera in the family Cyclophoridae include:

subfamily Cyclophorinae

Afroditropis
Alycaeus
Chondrocyclus
Cyathopoma
Cyclophorus
Cyclotus
Ditropis
Japonia
Leptopoma
Ptychopoma

tribe Cyclophorini

tribe Caspicyclotini

tribe Cyathopomatini

tribe Cyclotini

tribe Pterocyclini

subfamily Alycaeinae

Alycaeus Baird, 1850 - type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae
Awalycaeus
Chamalychaeus
Cipangocharax

subfamily Spirostomatinae

Spirostoma

subfamily ?

Aulopoma
Boucardicus
Chamalycaeus
Craspedotropis
Crossopoma
Cyclosurus
Dioryx
Mychopoma
Myxostoma
Nobuea
Pearsonia
Platyrhaphe
Pterocyclus
Rhiostoma
Scabrina
Theobaldius
Toffolettia

References

^ a b (German) Wenz W. (1938-1944) Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. In: Schindewolf O. H. (ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda, Verlag Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin, xii + 1639 pp.
^ Blanford W. T. (June 1864) Annals of Magazine of Natural History serie 3, 13: page 465.