Architaenioglossa
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| Architaenioglossa | |
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| Ramshorn apple snail Marisa cornuarietis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | 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.[1]
This "informal group" has been shown to be polyphyletic in a study by Harasewych et al., published in 1998.[2]
