Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.[2]
| Acirsa | |
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| Acirsa borealis shell (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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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 borealis Lyell, 1841 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species edit
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Acirsa :[2]
- †Acirsa aersispira Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
- Acirsa amara Kilburn, 1985
- Acirsa antarctica E. A. Smith, 1907
- †Acirsa antarctodelicata Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
- †Acirsa auversiensis Deshayes, 1861
- †Acirsa awamoaensis P. Marshall & Murdoch, 1921
- †Acirsa bezanconi de Boury, 1883
- Acirsa borealis Lyell, 1841
- †Acirsa canicularis Lamarck, 1804
- 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 cylindracea Fenaux, 1937
- †Acirsa erasa Deshayes, 1861
- †Acirsa funiculosa Cossmann, 1888
- †Acirsa gracilis Fenaux, 1938 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, junior homonym of Acirsa gracilis (Verrill, 1880), a replacement name is needed)
- †Acirsa lampra Tate, 1890
- †Acirsa lanceolata Brocchi, 1814
- †Acirsa lhommei de Boury, 1913
- Acirsa martensi de Boury, 1913
- Acirsa mcleani Sirenko, 2009
- †Acirsa mioplicatula Kautsky, 1925
- Acirsa morsei Yokoyama, 1926
- Acirsa murrha DuShane, 1970
- †Acirsa oamarutica Suter, 1917
- Acirsa ochotensis Middendorff, 1848
- †Acirsa pacifica Wilckens, 1922
- †Acirsa polynema Tate, 1890
- Acirsa pratoma Dall, 1919
- †Acirsa primaeva de Boury, 1887
- †Acirsa prisca Suter, 1917
- †Acirsa sceauxsensis Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018 †
- †Acirsa semicorrugata Chirli, 2009
- †Acirsa striatula Deshayes, 1832
- Acirsa subdecussata Cantraine, 1835
- †Acirsa subnodulosa P. A. Maxwell, 1988
- †Acirsa subplicata Deshayes, 1861
- †Acirsa subtenuistriata d'Orbigny, 1850
- Acirsa symphylla Martens, 1878
- †Acirsa transversaria Deshayes, 1861
- †Acirsa turriculata Fenaux, 1937
- †Acirsa vetusta P. A. Maxwell, 1992
- †Acirsa woodburnei Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
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 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 Opalia coronata R. A. Philippi & Scacchi, 1840
- 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 morchi Angas, 1871: synonym of Plastiscala morchi Angas, 1871
- 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 edit
- ^ Mørch O. A. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. [in] Rink, Grønland geographisk og statistik beskrivet. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein : 75-100
- ^ a b c 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
- 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.
External links edit
- Mörch, O. A. L. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr, Prodromus fauna molluscorum grønlandicae. In Rink, H.J. (Ed.) Grönland Geographisk og Statistisk Beskrevet. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse ad Grönland. Vol. 4. Rink, Copenhagen. pp. 75–100.
- Finlay H.J. (1926). New shells from New Zealand Tertiary beds: Part 2. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 227-258, pls 55-6
- Finlay H.J. (1926). New shells from New Zealand Tertiary beds: Part 2. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 227-258, pls 55-60
- Acirsa subdecussata : D. Dhora : Mollusks of Albania; Arch. Biol. Sci., Belgrade, 61 (3), 537-553, 2009
- Boury, E. de. (1909). Catalogue des sous-genres de Scalidae. Journal de Conchyliologie. 57(3): 255-258
- Boury, E. de. (1911). Etude sur les sous-genres de Scalidae vivants et fossiles. Monographie des Gyroscala et des Circuloscala. Journal de Conchyliologie. 58(3): 212-260
- Kobelt, W. (1887-1908). Iconographie der schalentragenden europäischen Meeresconchylien. 1: 1-171 pl. 1-28
- Stilwell, J. D.; Zinsmeister, W. J. (1992). Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy. Lower Tertiary La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Research Series 55. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., ix + 192 pp
- Boury, E. de. (1890). Révision des Scalidae miocènes et pliocènes de l'Italie. Bullettino della Societa Malacologica Italiana. 14: 161-326, pl. 4.
- Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188
- Kilburn R.N. (1985). The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(1): 239-337
- 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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