''Filiscala'' is a

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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 ...

, commonly known as wentletraps.Bouchet, P. (2015). Filiscala de Boury, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=834230 on 2015-02-22

Species

Species within the genus ''Filiscala'' include: * '' Filiscala raricosta'' (Lamarck, 1804) * '' Filiscala youngi'' (Kilburn, 1985) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Filiscala martinii'' (W. Wood, 1828): synonym of ''Filiscala raricosta'' (Lamarck, 1804)

References

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
Epitoniidae {{Epitoniidae-stub