Biology:Cystiscinae

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Short description: Subfamily of gastropods

Cystiscinae
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Drawing of a typical animal in this subfamily
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Subfamily: Cystiscinae
Stimpson, 1865

Cystiscinae are a taxonomic subfamily of minute sea snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae, and the clade Neogastropoda.

Diagnosis

Shell minute to small, white; spire immersed to low; surface smooth or axially costate; lip thickened, smooth or denticulate; external varix absent; siphonal notch absent; posterior notch absent; columella multiplicate, with combined total of usually 2 to 8 plications plus parietal lirae; internal whorls cystiscid type. Animal mantle smooth, at least partially extending over external shell surface. Internal anatomy unknown.

Genera

Genera within the subfamily Cystiscinae are as follows:[1]

Comparative shell structure of three genera

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). "Cystiscinae Stimpson, 1865". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23024. 
  2. Jousseaume, F.P. (1894). "Diagnoses des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques". Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 8 (6): 98–105. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31946446#page/430/mode/1up. Retrieved 4 July 2020. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Ortea, J.; Espinosa, J. (2001). "Intelcystiscus e Inbiocystiscus (Mollusca: Neogastrópoda: Cystiscidae) dos nuevos géneros del Atlántico occidental tropical". Avicennia 14: 107–114. 
  4. Landau, Bernard Manue; Marques da Silva, Carlos; Heitz, Antoine (2016). "Systematics of the lower-middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela". Bulletins of American Paleontology 389-391: 1–581. 
  • Espinosa, J. and J. Ortea 2002. Nuevas especies de margineliformes de Cuba, Bahamas y el Mar Caribe de Costa Rica Avicennia 15:101-128.
  • Ortea, J. y J. Espinosa 2001. Intelcystiscus e Inbiocystiscus (Mollusca: Neogastrópoda: Cystiscidae) dos nuevos géneros del Atlántico occidental tropical. Avicennia 14 107-114.

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