Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Volutoidea

Cystiscidae W. Stimpson, 1865

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cystiscinae W. Stimpson, 1865

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: コゴメガイ科

Literature

original description	Stimpson, W. (1865). On certain genera and families of zoophagous gasteropods. American Journal of Conchology. 1: 55-64, pl. 8-9.
additional source	Coovert, G. A.; Coovert, H. K. (1995). Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. The Nautilus. 109(2-3): 43-100.
status source	Fedosov A.E., Caballer Gutierrez M., Buge B., Sorokin P.V., Puillandre N., Bouchet P. (2019 [20 September]). Mapping the missing branch on the neogastropod tree of life: molecular phylogeny of marginelliform gastropods. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 85(4): 439-451.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cystiscidae W. Stimpson, 1865. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23023