Cystiscidae

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Cystiscidae
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Gibberula celerae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Family: Cystiscidae
Stimpson, 1865 [1]

Cystiscidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks.

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Description

The shell is minute to large, either white, uniformly colored, or patterned; the surface is smooth, sculptured, or axially costate; the spire is flat to immersed, or low to tall; the protoconch is paucispiral; the lip is thickened, smooth or denticulate; an external varix is present or absent; a siphonal notch is present or absent; a posterior notch is present or absent; the columella is multiplicate, internal whorls cystiscid or modified cystiscid type. Mantle cavity with monopectinate ctenidium and bipectinate osphradium. Proboscis pleurembolic; jaws absent; typical radular sac present.

Taxonomy

The family was erected by William Stimpson for a single included species based on unusual features of the head and radula. Subsequent authors included this group in the family Marginellidae.

Coan (1965) [2] recognized this group as a subfamily, but he did not include such genera as Gibberula, Persicula, and Canalispira. Rule of priority of the ICZN require that the name Cystiscidae must be used, but this is unfortunate because the type specimen of the type species is lost, and that species is poorly known.

2005 taxonomy

The family Cystiscidae consists of subfamilies (according to the Working Classification of the Gastropoda by Bouchet et al., 2005): [3]

Reference for inclusion of Granulinae in Cystiscidae: Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P.; Fryda, J.; Hausdorf, B.; Ponder, W.; Valdes, A.; Waren, A. 2005. Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks.

Genera

Genera within the family Cystiscidae include:

Canalispirinae

Cystiscinae

Synonyms

Plesiocystiscinae

Abbreviations:

Comparisons of shells of the genera:

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Canalispira is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cystiscidae.

Cystiscus mancelli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cystiscidae.

Canalispira gomezi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.

Plesiocystiscus jardonae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.

Plesiocystiscus mariae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.

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References

  1. ↑ Stimpson W. (1865). "On certain genera and families of zoophagous gastropods". American Journal of Conchology 1(1): 55-64, plates 8-9.
  2. ↑ Coan E. (1965). "A proposed reclassification of the family Marginellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". The Veliger 7(3): 184-193. page 186.
  3. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. 1 2 Coovert G. A. & Coovert H. K. (1995). "Revision of the Supraspecific Classification of Marginelliform Gastropods". The Nautilus 109(2&3): 43-110, page 66, 70, 73.
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