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Genus of gastropods

Acirsa
Acirsa borealis shell (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Epitonioidea
Family: Epitoniidae
Genus: Acirsa
Mörch, 1857
Type species
Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841
Synonyms
  • 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.

Species

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

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

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.

References

  1. Mørch O. A. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. [in] Rink, Grønland geographisk og statistik beskrivet. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein : 75-100
  2. ^ 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
  • Nomura, S. (1939). Summary of the fossil and Recent Japanese Pyramidellidae, with the description of several new species. In: Jubilee Publication in the Commemoration of Professor H. Yabe M.I.A. Sixtieth Birthday, vol. 1: 119-156.

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Taxon identifiers
Acirsa
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