Megalomastomatidae

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Megalomastomatidae
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Shell of Tomocyclus simulacrum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Megalomastomatidae
Blanford, 1864 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Megalostomatidae [sic] · (misspelling)
  • Neopupininae Kobelt, 1902 [3]
  • Hainesiinae Thiele, 1929 [4]

Megalomastomatidae is a family of tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2]

Genera

Genera within the family Megalomastomatidae include:

Synonyms

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References

  1. Blanford W. (1864). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 3, 13: 465.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  3. Kobelt W. (1902).Das Tierreich16: 261.
  4. Thiele J. (1929). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde1(1): 103.
  5. "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  6. "Megalomastomatidae". Paleobiology Database, accessed 23 March 2011.