''Acirsa'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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Epitoniidae Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.Gofas, S. (2010). Epitoniidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusc ...

. They are commonly known as wentletraps.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

Species

According to the

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, the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Acirsa'' : The following species are also named by

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and in the book ''New Zealand Mollusca'', by A. Powell ;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.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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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.

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

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 {{Commons category Epitoniidae Taxa named by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch