Acirsa | |
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Acirsa borealis shell (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
Family: | Epitoniidae |
Genus: | Acirsa Mörch, 1857 [1] |
Type species | |
Scalaria borealisLyell, 1841 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps. [2]
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]
Some new species (Acirsa alpha, Acirsa beta, Acirsa delta, and Acirsa epsilon) have been named by Squires and Saul in 2003. [4]
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Epitonium is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. Epitonium is the type genus of the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.
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Acesta is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Limidae.
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.
Neptunea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Neptuneinae of the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Zemacies is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae
Conomitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutomitridae.
Opalia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
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Syrnola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Turbonillinae of the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
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Aclis is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Cylindriscala is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
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Tudicla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tudiclidae, the true whelks.