Acirsa

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Acirsa borealis 001.jpg

| image_caption = Acirsa borealis shell (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)

| taxon = Acirsa

| authority = Mörch, 1857[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]

| type_species = Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841

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| 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

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Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. 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 World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Acirsa :

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| †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

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The following species are also named by ITIS and in the book New Zealand Mollusca, by A. Powell Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}

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| 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

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;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.[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]

References

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  • 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.