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Neocyclotidae

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Neocyclotidae
A live individual of Amphicyclotulus amethystinus
Three views of a shell of Poteria fasciatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Neocyclotidae
Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
Synonyms

Dicristidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975

Neocyclotidae is a family of tropical land snails with gills and 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).[1]

Subfamilies

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Subfamilies within the family Neocyclotidae include:[1]

  • subfamily Neocyclotinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 - synonym: Poteriinae Thiele, 1929; Crocidopomatinae F. G. Thompson, 1967; Dicristidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
  • subfamily Amphicyclotinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 - synonym: Aperostomatinae H. B. Baker, 1922

Genera

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Genera in the family Neocyclotidae include:[2][unreliable source?]

subfamily Neocyclotinae

subfamily Amphicyclotinae

subfamily ?

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. ^ Neocyclotidae, Discover Life, Retrieved 21 December 2008. (This source does not include family Megalostomatidae and its members are included within Neocyclotidae.)
  3. ^ "Mollusca" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, Retrieved 23 March 2011.