Cirsonella
| Cirsonella | |
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| Drawing with two views of a shell of Cirsonella weldii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Skeneidae |
| Genus: | Cirsonella Angas, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| Cirsonella australis Angas, 1877 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tharsiella Bush, 1897 | |
Cirsonella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
(Original description by G. Angas) The minute, smooth shell is globosely turbinate. It is narrowly umbilicated. The aperture is circular. The continuous peristome is slightly thickened.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Cirsonella include:
- Cirsonella ateles (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
- Cirsonella carinata (Hedley, 1903)
- Cirsonella consobrina Powell, 1930
- Cirsonella cubitale (Hedley, 1907)
- Cirsonella densilirata Suter, 1908
- Cirsonella extrema Thiele, 1912
- Cirsonella floridensis (Dall, 1927)
- Cirsonella gaudryi (Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1896)
- Cirsonella georgiana (Dall, 1927)
- Cirsonella globosa'' (Pelseneer, 1903)
- Cirsonella kerguelenensis Thiele, 1912
- Cirsonella lata (Laseron, 1954)
- Cirsonella laxa Powell, 1937
- Cirsonella maoria Powell, 1937
- Cirsonella margaritiformis (Dall, 1927)
- Cirsonella microscopia (Gatliff & Gabriel, 1910)
- Cirsonella naticoides (Hedley, 1907)
- Cirsonella paradoxa Powell, 1937
- Cirsonella parvula Powell, 1926
- Cirsonella pisiformis Powell, 1937
- Cirsonella propelaxa Dell, 1956
- Cirsonella reflecta Laseron, 1954
- Cirsonella romettensis (Granata-Grillo, 1877)
- Cirsonella variecostata Powell, 1940
- Cirsonella waikukuensis Powell, 1937
- Cirsonella weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cirsonella australis Angas, 1877: synonym of Cirsonella weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
- Cirsonella granum Murdoch and Suter, 1906: synonym of Lissotesta granum (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
- Cirsonella neozelanica Murdoch, 1899: synonym of Suterilla neozelanica (Murdoch, 1899)
- Cirsonella perplexa Laseron, 1954: synonym of Cirsonella reflecta Laseron, 1954
- Cirsonella simplex Powell, 1937: synonym of Acremodontina simplex (Powell, 1937)
- Cirsonella translucida May, 1915: synonym of Acremodontina translucida (May, 1915)
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Cirsonella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138494 on 2012-05-23
- ^ G. Angas, Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877
- Angas, 1877 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877: 38
- Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. (1962). A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum. 11 : 1-109
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
Further reading
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Taxonomicon info: [1]