''Acirsa'' 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 Mollu ...

. 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'' : * ''

Acirsa amara ''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 ...

'' Kilburn, 1985 * '' Acirsa antarctica'' (E. A. Smith, 1907) * ''

Acirsa borealis ''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 ...

'' (Lyell, 1841) - chalky wentletrap, Okhotsk wentletrap * ''

Acirsa cerralvoensis ''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 Ma ...

'' (DuShane, 1970) * ''

Acirsa coarctata ''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 Ma ...

'' (Jeffreys, 1884) ** ''

Acirsa coarctata coarctata ''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 Ma ...

'' (Jeffreys, J.G., 1884) ** ''

Acirsa coarctata distantespirata ''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 ...

'' Nordsieck, F., 1972 * ''

Acirsa cookiana ''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 ...

'' (Dell, 1956) * ''

Acirsa martensi ''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 ...

'' (de Boury, 1913) * ''

Acirsa mcleani ''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 ...

'' Sirenko, 2009 * ''

Acirsa morsei ''Acirsa morsei'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship) ...

'' (Yokoyama, 1926) * ''

Acirsa murrha ''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 ...

'' (DuShane, 1970) * ''

Acirsa ochotensis ''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 ...

'' (Middendorff, 1848) * '' Acirsa subdecussata'' (Cantraine, 1835) * '' Acirsa symphylla'' (Martens, 1878) The following species are also named by

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and in the book ''New Zealand Mollusca'', by A. Powell * '' Acirsa americana'' Wade, B., 1926 * '' Acirsa bezanconi'' Boury, E.A. de, 1883 * '' 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 ''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 Ma ...

'' 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 subcarinata ''Acirsa subcarinata'' is a species of minute deep water sea snail or micromollusk. It is a wentletrap in the family Epitoniidae, a marine gastropod mollusk. This species is distributed along New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearo ...

'' Murdoch, R. & H. Suter, 1906 * ''

Acirsa turrita ''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 Ma ...

'' Parona, 1894 * ''

Acirsa vayssierei ''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 Ma ...

'' * '' Acirsa wadei'' Cossmann, A.E.M., 1925 ;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 ''

'' (de Boury, 1913) * ''Acirsa corsicana'' Nordsieck F., 1974 : synonym of ''Acirsa subdecussata'' (Cantraine, 1835) * ''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 praelonga'' Jeffreys, 1877: synonym of '' Papuliscala praelonga'' (Jeffreys, 1877) * ''Acirsa sarsii'' Kobelt, 1903: synonym of '' Gregorioiscala sarsii'' (Kobelt, 1903) * ''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

External links

Acirsa subdecussata : D. Dhora : Mollusks of Albania; Arch. Biol. Sci., Belgrade, 61 (3), 537-553, 2009
* 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 {{Taxonbar, from=Q2712258 Epitoniidae Taxa named by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch