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Cystiscidae
Sign in to saveCystiscidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks.
Species
コゴメガイ科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyCystiscidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 522
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Cystiscidae
- Collections
- PRI, LACM, USNM, UF, NMV, DMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, French Polynesia, Panama, Philippines, Australia, Oman
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- Genera
- References
- External links
Cystiscidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks.
== 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.
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