Maizaniidae

Maizaniidae
Maizaniidae
Temporal range: Oligocene - present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Maizaniidae
Tielecke, 1940[1]

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

Genera

Genera within the family Maizaniidae include:

  • Maizania Bourguignat, 1889, the type genus of the family

Other genera are:

  • Craspedopoma Pfeiffer, 1847
  • Maizania Bourguignat, 1889
  • Maizaniella Bequaert and Clench, 1836
  • Neomaizania Van Bruggen, 1985
  • Thomeomaizania Bequeart and Clench, 1936

References

  1. ^ Tielecke H. (August 15) 1940. Anatomie, Phylogenie un Tiergeographie der Cyclophoriden. Archiv für Naturgeschchte. New series, 9(3): 317-371, page 365.