Acirsa

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Genus of gastropods

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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Acirsa borealis 001.jpg | image_caption = Acirsa borealis shell (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | taxon = Acirsa | authority = Mörch, 1857 | type_species = Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = {{species list | 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 | display_parents = 3

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 : | †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 | 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 turrita | Parona, 1894 | Acirsa vayssierei | | Acirsa wadei | Cossmann, A.E.M., 1925

;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

  • 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.

References

  1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lGUwAQAAMAAJ 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. [[Arthur William Baden Powell. Powell A W B]], ''New Zealand Mollusca'', [[HarperCollins. William Collins Publishers Ltd]], Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN. 0-00-216906-1
  4. [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=14485113 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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