Cyclophoroidea
| Cyclophoroidea | |
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| Pupinella rufa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Informal group: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: |
Cyclophoroidea Gray, 1847 |
| Families | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lagocheilidae Stoliczka, 1872 |
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Lagocheilidae Stoliczka, 1872
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.
According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), this superfamily consists of the following families :
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