Acroptychia

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Acroptychia
Shell of Acroptychia aequivoca (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Genus: Acroptychia
Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877
Type species
Euptychia metableta Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873
Synonyms
  • Anceyiella Mabille, 1886
  • Euptychia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1873 (junior primary homonym of Euptychia Hübner, 1816 (Lepidoptera))

Acroptychia is a taxonomic genus of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae.[1]

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