Cyclophoroidea
Cyclophoroidea is a superfamily of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropods within the order Architaenioglossa, that belongs to the subclass Caenogastropoda. Approximately 3,675 cyclophoroid species were known as of 2024, making them the second-most diverse clade of land snails after Stylommatophora.
These terrestrial gastropods have lost the ctenidium (comb-like respiratory apparatus) and osphradium, and the pallial cavity has been modified as a lung.
11 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Cyclophoridae
familyCyclophoridae
Cochlostomatidae
familyCochlostomatidae
Megalomastomatidae
familyMegalomastomatidae
Pupinidae
familyPupinidae
Neocyclotidae
familyNeocyclotidae
Diplommatinidae
familyDiplommatinidae
Needle Snails
familyAciculidae
Pollicariidae
familyPollicariidae
Craspedopomatidae
familyCraspedopomatidae
Hainesiidae
familyHainesiidae
Maizaniidae
familyMaizaniidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 372889.