Acirsa

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]

The following species are also named by ITIS and in the book New Zealand Mollusca, by A. Powell ^[3]

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 subcarinata (Murdoch, R. & H. Suter, 1906): synonym of Aclis subcarinata (Murdoch, R. & H. Suter, 1906)
• 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. ^ 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.

External links

• 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 Archived 2020-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
• 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