Cyclophoroidea

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Cyclophoroidea is a superfamily of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropods within the order Architaenioglossa, that belongs to the subclass Caenogastropoda. These terrestrial gastropods have lost the ctenidium (comb-like respiratory apparatus) and osphradium, and the pallial cavity has been modified as a lung.

Taxonomy

According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), this superfamily consists of the following families :

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