Acirsa
| Acirsa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
| Family: | Epitoniidae |
| Genus: | Acirsa Mörch, 1857 |
| Type species | |
| Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.[1]
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Acirsa :[1]
- Acirsa amara Kilburn, 1985
- Acirsa antarctica (E. A. Smith, 1907)
- Acirsa borealis (Lyell, 1841) - chalky wentletrap, Okhotsk wentletrap
- Acirsa cerralvoensis (DuShane, 1970)
- Acirsa coarctata (Jeffreys, 1884)
- Acirsa coarctata coarctata (Jeffreys, J.G., 1884)
- Acirsa coarctata distantespirata Nordsieck, F., 1972
- Acirsa cookiana (Dell, 1956)
- Acirsa martensi (de Boury, 1913)
- Acirsa mcleani Sirenko, 2009
- Acirsa morsei (Yokoyama, 1926)
- Acirsa murrha (DuShane, 1970)
- Acirsa ochotensis (Middendorff, 1848)
- Acirsa subdecussata (Cantraine, 1835)
- Acirsa symphylla (Martens, 1878)
The following species are also named by ITIS and in the book New Zealand Mollusca, by A. Powell [2]
- Acirsa americana Wade, B., 1926
- Acirsa bezanconi Boury, E.A. de, 1883
- Acirsa clathrata Sohl, N.F., 1964
- Acirsa cretacea (Wade, B., 1917)
- Acirsa culmosa Sohl, N.F., 1964
- Acirsa elatum (Suter, H., 1917)
- Acirsa entrichti Nordsieck, F., 1968
- Acirsa eschrichti Hölboll, 1842
- Acirsa flexicostata Sohl, N.F., 1964
- Acirsa gravida Sohl, N.F., 1964
- Acirsa implexa Sohl, N.F., 1964
- Acirsa microstriata Wade, B., 1917
- Acirsa otogoensis Stilwell, J.D., 1994
- Acirsa pelagica (Risso, A., 1826)
- Acirsa subcarinata Murdoch, R. & H. Suter, 1906
- Acirsa turrita Parona, 1894
- Acirsa vayssierei
- Acirsa wadei Cossmann, A.E.M., 1925
- 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 [3]
References
- 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
- ↑ Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ↑ 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
- "Acirsa". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Mørch O. A. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. [in Rink, Grønland geographisk og statistik beskrivet. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein : 75-100]
- Acirsa subdecussata : D. Dhora : Mollusks of Albania; Arch. Biol. Sci., Belgrade, 61 (3), 537-553, 2009
- 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
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