Architaenioglossa
| Architaenioglossa | |
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| Pomacea bridgesii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group 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.[1]
This "informal group" has been shown to be polyphyletic in a study by Harasewych et al., published in 1998.[2]
Taxonomy
- Superfamily Ampullarioidea
- Family Ampullariidae
- † Family Naricopsinidae
- Superfamily Cyclophoroidea
- Family Cyclophoridae
- Family Aciculidae
- Family Craspedopomatidae
- Family Diplommatinidae
- † Family Ferussinidae
- Family Maizaniidae
- Family Megalomastomatidae
- Family Neocyclotidae
- Family Pupinidae
- Superfamily Viviparoidea
- Family Viviparidae
- † Family Pliopholygidae
(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
- ↑ M.G. Harasewych, S.L. Adamkewicz, M. Plassmeyer, P.M. Gillevet (1998). "Phylogenetic relationships of the lower Caenogastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Architaenioglossa, Campaniloidea, Cerithioidea) as determined by partial 18S rDNA sequences". Zoologica Scripta 27 (4): 361–372. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00467.x.
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