Viviparoidea
| Viviparoidea | |
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| A shell of Cipangopaludina chinensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea Gray, 1847 |
| Families | |
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Family Viviparidae | |
Cyclophoroidea is a taxonomic superfamily of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks within the informal group Architaenioglossa, which belongs to the clade Caenogastropoda.[1]
The following two families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Family Viviparidae
- † Family Pliopholygidae
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
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