Cyclophoroidea

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Cyclophoroidea
Temporal range: Albian–Recent
File:Pupinella rufa.jpg
Pupinella rufa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Gray, 1847
Families

Cyclophoroidea is a superfamily of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropods within the order Architaenioglossa, that belongs to the subclass Caenogastropoda.[1] Approximately 3,675 cyclophoroid species were known as of 2024, making them the second-most diverse clade of land snails after Stylommatophora.[2]

These terrestrial gastropods have lost the ctenidium (comb-like respiratory apparatus) and osphradium, and the pallial cavity has been modified as a lung.

Cyclophoroids have detritivorous or herbivorous diets.[3]

Cyclophoroids probably originated in the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous based on molecular clock estimates. Several fossil species are known from Burmese amber that dates to the mid-Cretaceous, approximately 99 million years ago.[4]

Taxonomy

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According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), this superfamily consists of the following families:

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

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  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
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