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Family CYCLOPHORIDAE

Introduction

The Cyclophoridae are operculate land snails in the caenogastropod superfamily Cyclophoroidea. They occur in the tropical parts of south-eastern Asia, India, Madagascar and Africa, with a few species reaching islands of the western Pacific and northern Australia. In Australia, they are confined to the wet forest areas of north-eastern Queensland where they are found on leaves of trees and the understorey. The Australian species are mostly rather small in size with a short, sharply pointed spire and circular aperture. No recent revisionary work has been carried out on the Australian species, but Stanisic (1998) summarised the available data on the family.

Some classifications have amalgamated the Cyclophoridae, Pupinidae and Diplommatinidae as subfamilies of the Cyclophoridae. They are treated here, however, as separate families within the superfamily Cyclophoroidea.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)