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Subfamily [[Alycaeinae]] <small>[[William Thomas Blanford|Blanford]], 1864</small><ref>[[William Thomas Blanford|Blanford W. T.]] (June 1864) ''Annals of Magazine of Natural History'' serie 3, 13: page 465.</ref>
Subfamily [[Alycaeinae]] <small>[[William Thomas Blanford|Blanford]], 1864</small><ref>[[William Thomas Blanford|Blanford W. T.]] (June 1864) ''Annals of Magazine of Natural History'' serie 3, 13: page 465.</ref>
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Cyclophoridae
A live but withdrawn individual of Leptopoma nitidum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group "Architaenioglossa"
Superfamily:
Family:
Cyclophoridae

Gray, 1847
Subfamilies

Alycaeinae
Cyclophorinae
Spirostomatinae

Synonyms

Alycaeidae Blanford, 1864

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).

This diverse family with many species is now limited to the representatives in the tropics and subtropics of the Old and New World.

Their fossil history dates back to the Early Tertiary [1]

Description

The dextral shells are mostly of small and rarely medium size. The form of the shell varies from discoidal to turbinate. The round aperture is often modified, sometimes with an incision or a constriction. The last whorl can sometimes be disconnected and then extends strongly from the winding plane. The operculum is generally circular, which can be retracted deeply into the shell. Its form is multispiral and can be calcified or lacking calcareous overlay.The outer layer of the operculum can contain accessory deposits.

The head of the soft body ends in a short proboscis. The tentacles are round in cross-section, relatively long and taper to the end. The eyes are located at the base of the antenna on flat papillae. The longitudinal muscular foot is not divided. The mantle cavity acts as a lung cavity.The taenioglossan radula has seven elements per transverse row. The central row of the radula contains usually five, rarely three or seven teeth.The animals are dioecious.

Taxonomy and systematics

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).[2] Thirty five genera containing approximately 810 species have been recognized. [3]

Some notable genera are also listed: