Cyclophoridae

Cyclophoridae
A live but withdrawn individual of Leptopoma nitidum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Cyclophoridae Gray, 1847
Subfamilies
Cyclophorinae Alycaeinae Spirostomatinae

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).

Drawing of the shell of Cyclophorus fulguratus.

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

1. ^ ^{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.
2. ^ Blanford W. T. (June 1864) Annals of Magazine of Natural History serie 3, 13: page 465.

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