Acirsa

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Acirsa
Acirsa borealis 001.jpg
Acirsa borealis shell (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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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]
  • Acirsa (Acirsa) Mörch, 1857 (alternate representation)
  • Acirsa (Acirsella) de Boury, 1887 (alternate representation)
  • Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) de Boury, 1890
  • Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) de Boury, 1909
  • Hemiacirsa de Boury, 1890
  • Kallosinistrala Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
  • Notacirsa Finlay, 1926
  • Plastiscala Iredale, 1936
  • Plesioacirsa de Boury, 1909
  • Pseudacirsa Kobelt, 1905
  • Pseudoacirsa de Boury, 1909
  • Scala (Hemiacirsa) de Boury, 1890
  • Scala (Plastiscala) Iredale, 1936 (junior subjective synonym)
  • Scala (Plesioacirsa) de Boury, 1909
  • Scala (Pseudacirsa) Kobelt, 1903
  • Scala (Pseudoacirsa) de Boury, 1909 (original rank)
  • Scala (Tumidiacirsa) de Boury, 1911 (unnecessary replacement for Pseudoacirsa (de Boury, 1909))
  • Scalaria (Acirsa) Mörch, 1857
  • Turbonilla (Mormurella) Nomura, 1939
  • 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]

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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

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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References

  1. Mørch O. A. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. [in] Rink, Grønland geographisk og statistik beskrivet. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein : 75-100
  2. 1 2 3 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