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Architaenioglossa

Architaenioglossa
Pomacea.jpg
Pomacea bridgesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa
Haller, 1890


informal group Architaenioglossa
Haller, 1890

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.

This "informal group" has been shown to be polyphyletic in a study by Harasewych et al., published in 1998.

(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)


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