Acirsa
Acirsa borealis shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:
Epitonioidea
Family:
Epitoniidae
Genus:
Acirsa

Mörch, 1857[1]
Type species
Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841
Synonyms[2]
  • Hemiacirsa de Boury, 1890
  • Notacirsa Finlay, 1926
  • Plesioacirsa de Boury, 1909
  • Pseudacirsa Kobelt, 1905
  • Pseudoacirsa de Boury, 1909
  • 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]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Acirsa :[2]

  • 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 [3]

  • 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 [4]

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
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