 Plesiocystiscinae

Plesiocystiscinae is a subfamily of minute sea predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the infraorder Neogastropoda.The genus name on which this subfamily name is based is derived from the Greekword "plesios", near, in the sense of plesiomorphic, in other words having characters close to those of the ancestor, combined with "Cystiscus" the name of a closely related genus.