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Acirsa
Acirsa borealis shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:
Epitonioidea
Family:
Epitoniidae
Genus:
Acirsa

Mörch, 1857[1]
Type species
Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841
Synonyms[2]
  • Hemiacirsa de Boury, 1890
  • Notacirsa Finlay, 1926
  • Plesioacirsa de Boury, 1909
  • Pseudacirsa Kobelt, 1905
  • Pseudoacirsa de Boury, 1909
  • Turritella Wollaston, 1878

Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.[2]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Acirsa :[2]

The following species are also named by ITIS and in the book New Zealand Mollusca, by A. Powell [3]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Acirsa annectens A. W. B. Powell, 1951: synonym of Gregorioiscala annectens (A. W. B. Powell, 1951)
  • Acirsa berryi: synonym of Couthouyella menesthoides (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Acirsa chitaniana (Yokoyama, 1926): synonym of Acirsa martensi (de Boury, 1913)
  • Acirsa corsicana Nordsieck F., 1974 : synonym of Acirsa subdecussata (Cantraine, 1835)
  • Acirsa costulata: synonym of Acirsa borealis (Lyell, 1841)
  • Acirsa exopleura : synonym of Opalia exopleura (Dall, 1917)
  • Acirsa gracilis : synonym of Periapta pandion (Clench & Turner, 1952)
  • Acirsa hedleyi (de Boury, 1912): synonym of Amaea hedleyi (de Boury, 1912)
  • Acirsa menesthoides: synonym of Couthouyella menesthoides (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Acirsa praelonga Jeffreys, 1877: synonym of Papuliscala praelonga (Jeffreys, 1877)
  • Acirsa sarsii Kobelt, 1903: synonym of Gregorioiscala sarsii (Kobelt, 1903)
  • Acirsa undulata: synonym of Acirsa borealis (Lyell, 1841)

Some new species (Acirsa alpha, Acirsa beta, Acirsa delta, and Acirsa epsilon) have been named by Squires and Saul in 2003 [4]

References

  1. ^ Mørch O. A. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. [in] Rink, Grønland geographisk og statistik beskrivet. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein : 75-100
  2. ^ a b c Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Acirsa Mörch, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137935 on 29 May 2012
  3. ^ Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. ^ Squires & Saul, New Late Cretaceous epitoniid and zygopleurid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America; The Veliger, 2003, vol. 46, no1, pp. 20-49; ISSN 0042-3211
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