Ticocystiscus

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Ticocystiscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Subkingdom: Eumetazoa Superphylum: Protostomia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Caenogastropoda Order: Sorbeoconcha Suborder: Hypsogastropoda Infraorder: Neogastropoda Superfamily: Muricoidea Family: Cystiscidae Subfamily: Cystiscinae Genus: Ticocystiscus Espinosa and Ortea, 2002

Ticocystiscus is a genus of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cystiscidae.

This genus, and indeed all the genera in the family, were previously and sometimes still are, placed in the family Marginellidae.

(Note: Gastropod taxonomy has been in flux for more than half a century, and this is especially true currently, because of new research in molecular phylogeny. Because of all the on-going changes, different reliable sources can yield very different classifications.)

[edit] Species

• Ticocystiscus iberia Espinosa and Ortea, 2002 T

[edit] References

• Espinosa, J. y J. Ortea 2002. Nuevas especies de margineliformes de Cuba, Bahamas y el Mar Caribe de Costa Rica Avicennia 15:101-128.