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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Ordo: Architaenioglossa
Superfamiliae (3): AmpullarioideaCyclophoroideaViviparoidea

Name

"Architaenioglossa" Haller, 1890 [paraphyletic assemblage]

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Architaenioglossa in the World Register of Marine Species

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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