 This family is placed within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).In many textbooks and on many websites however this family is listed as the subfamily Cepolinae within the family Helminthoglyptidae.The name Cepolidae Ihering, 1909 is a homonym for the family Cepolidae Rafinesque, 1815 (based on "Cepola" Linnaeus, 1766) a family of bandfishes in the superfamily Cepoloidea within the order Perciformes.