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| Cyclophoridae Temporal range:
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| Family Cyclophoridae. A Pterocyclos tenuilabiatus; B Pterocyclos amabilis C Leptopoma pellucidum; D Platyraphe bongaoensis; Broken aperture E Japonia trilirata/kinabaluensis species complex; F Japonia balabacensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Cyclophoridae Gray, 1847 |
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Alycaeidae Blanford, 1864 | |
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass 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 through the Early Tertiary[1] to the Cenomanian age of the Cretaceous.[2]
- ^ Gordon MS, Olson EC (1995) Invasions of the Land: The Transitions of Organisms from Aquatic to Terrestrial Life. Columbia University Press, New York, 312 pp
- ^ Hirano, T.; Asato, K.; Yamamoto, S.; Takahashi, Y.; Chiba, S. (2019). "Cretaceous amber fossils highlight the evolutionary history and morphological conservatism of land snails". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): Article number 15886. Bibcode:2019NatSR...915886H. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51840-3. PMC 6828811. PMID 31685840.