Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum

Operculum (gastropod)

The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...

, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 gastropod mollusks in the informal group Architaenioglossa

Architaenioglossa

Architaenioglossa is a taxonomic group of snails which have gills and often an operculum. They are primarily land and freshwater gastropod mollusks within the clade Caenogastropoda....

 belonging to the clade

Clade

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 Caenogastropoda

Caenogastropoda

Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade of a large diverse group of mostly marine gastropods.Caenogastropoda contains a majority of the families of shelled marine molluscs including such families as the periwinkles, cowries, wentletraps, moon snails, and cone snails.About 60% of all living gastropods...

 (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

).

Taxonomy

This family consists of the following subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

, which adapted the tribes of Cyclophorinae from the system used by Wenz (1938):

• subfamily Cyclophorinae Gray, 1847
  • tribe Cyclophorini Gray, 1847 - synonyms: Aulopomatinae Gray, 1857; Lagocheilidae Stoliczka, 1872
  • tribe Caspicyclotini Wenz, 1938
  • tribe Cyathopomatini Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
  • tribe Cyclotini Pfeiffer
    Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer
    Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, also known as Louis Pfeiffer was a German physician, botanist and conchologist.-Biography:He received his education in Kassel, and became professor of pathology there in 1828...
    
    , 1853
  • tribe Pterocyclini Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
• subfamily Alycaeinae Blanford
  William Thomas Blanford
  William Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.-Biography:Blanford was born in London...
  
  , 1864
• subfamily Spirostomatinae Tielecke, 1940

Genera

Genera in the family Cyclophoridae include:

subfamily Cyclophorinae

• Afroditropis
• Alycaeus
  Alycaeus
  Alycaeus is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.It is the type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae.-Further reading:* Paleobiology database:...
  
  
• Chondrocyclus
• Cyathopoma
  Cyathopoma
  Cyathopoma is a genus of land snails with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.-Species:Species within the genus Cyathopoma include:* Cyathopoma anjombona* Cyathopoma hoditra...
  
  
• Cyclophorus
  Cyclophorus (gastropod)
  Cyclophorus is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails with an operculum, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclophoridae.- Species :Species in the genus Cyclophorus include:* Cyclophorus fulguratus...
  
  
• Cyclotus
• Ditropis
  Ditropis
  Ditropis is a genus of land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropods in the family Cyclophoridae.There is also a hemipteran genus Ditropis, homonym of Stiroma Fieber 1866 , belonging to the family Delphacidae.- Distribution :...
  
  
• Japonia
  Japonia
  Japonia is a genus of land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropods in the family Cyclophoridae.-Species:The genus Japonia includes the following species:* Japonia hispida* Japonia shigetai* Japonia striatula-References:*...
  
  
• Leptopoma
  Leptopoma
  Leptopoma is a genus of land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.-References:*...
  
  
• Ptychopoma

tribe Cyclophorini

tribe Caspicyclotini

tribe Cyathopomatini

tribe Cyclotini

tribe Pterocyclini

subfamily Alycaeinae

• Alycaeus
  Alycaeus
  Alycaeus is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.It is the type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae.-Further reading:* Paleobiology database:...
  
  Baird, 1850 - type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae
• Awalycaeus
  Awalycaeus
  Awalycaeus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Alycaeidae....
  
  
• Chamalychaeus
  Chamalychaeus
  Chamalychaeus is a genus of tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.-Species:Species within the genus Chamalychaeus include:* Chamalychaeus expanstoma* Chamalychaeus miyazakii...
  
  
• Cipangocharax
  Cipangocharax
  Cipangocharax is a genus of tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.This genus name has occasionally been misspelled as "Cipangochalax".-Species:...
  
  

subfamily Spirostomatinae

• Spirostoma

subfamily ?

• Aulopoma
• Boucardicus
  Boucardicus
  Boucardicus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.-Species:Species within the genus Boucardicus include:* Boucardicus albocinctus* Boucardicus antiquus...
  
  
• Chamalycaeus
• Craspedotropis
• Crossopoma
• Cyclosurus
  Cyclosurus
  Cyclosurus is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails with an operculum, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Cyclophoridae....
  
  
• Dioryx
• Mychopoma
• Myxostoma
• Nobuea
  Nobuea
  Nobuea is a genus of [tropical]] land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.- Further reading : Minato H. & Tada A. . "日本新記録のノブエガイ属の新種 "Nobuea, A Genus of Operculate Gastropoda New to Japan ". Venus 36 168-170. ....
  
  
• Pearsonia
  Pearsonia
  Pearsonia is an African plant genus of some 12 species belonging to the family Fabaceae and occurring south of the equator with 1 species found on Madagascar....
  
  
• Platyrhaphe
• Pterocyclus
• Rhiostoma
• Scabrina
• Theobaldius
• Toffolettia