''Cylindriscala'' is a
genus
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of
predatory
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sea snail
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s,
marine prosobranch
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
family
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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.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cylindriscala de Boury, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137941 on 2020-10-04]
Species
According to the
World Register of Marine Species
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, the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Cylindriscala'' :
* ''
Cylindriscala acus'' (R. B. Watson, 1883)
* ''
Cylindriscala aequatorialis'' (Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Cylindriscala andrewsii'' (A. E. Verrill, 1882)
* ''
Cylindriscala aurantia'' Bouchet & Warén, 1986
* ''
Cylindriscala distincta'' (E. A. Smith, 1891)
* ''
Cylindriscala elata'' (Suter, 1917) †
* ''
Cylindriscala enamelis'' (Nakayama, 1995)
* ''
Cylindriscala guernei'' (Dautzenberg & de Boury, 1897)
* ''
Cylindriscala humerosa'' (Schepman, 1909)
* ''
Cylindriscala jeffreysi'' (Tryon, 1887)
* ''
Cylindriscala kaiparaensis'' (Laws, 1944) †
* ''
Cylindriscala lawsi'' P. A. Maxwell, 1992 †
* ''
Cylindriscala lirulata'' (Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Cylindriscala mirifica'' (P. Fischer in Filhol, 1886)
* ''
Cylindriscala nitida'' (Kuroda & Ito, 1961)
* ''
Cylindriscala orientalis'' (Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Cylindriscala paradoxa'' Garcia, 2003
* ''
Cylindriscala rosenbergi'' Garcia, 2005
* ''
Cylindriscala sibogae'' (Schepman, 1909)
* ''
Cylindriscala solar'' (Nakayama, 1995)
* ''
Cylindriscala suteri'' P. A. Maxwell, 1992 †
* ''
Cylindriscala thalassae
''Cylindriscala'' is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cylindriscala de Boury, ...
'' Bouchet & Warén, 1986
* ''
Cylindriscala tortilis'' (R. B. Watson, 1883)
* ''
Cylindriscala turrita'' (Nakayama, 1995)
* ''
Cylindriscala vicina'' (Dautzenberg & de Boury, 1897)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Cylindriscala fulgens'' (de Boury, 1909) : synonym of ''Cylindriscala acus'' (R. B. Watson, 1883)
* ''Cylindriscala funiculata'' (R. B. Watson, 1883) : synonym of ''
Punctiscala watsoni'' (de Boury, 1911)
* ''Cylindriscala grimaldii'' (Dautzenberg & de Boury, 1897) : synonym of ''Cylindriscala jeffreysi'' (Tryon, 1887)
* ''Cylindriscala solidula'' (Monterosato, 1875) : synonym of ''Cylindriscala acus'' (R. B. Watson, 1883)
* ''Cylindriscala watsoni'' (de Boury, 1911) : synonym of ''
Punctiscala watsoni'' (de Boury, 1911)
References
* Kuroda, T. & Itô, K. (1961) Molluscan shells from southern Kii. Venus, 21, 243–267, 2 pls.
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180–213.
* Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links
Boury E. (de) (1909). Catalogue des sous-genres de Scalidae. Journal de Conchyliologie, 57: 255-258Cossmann, M. (1912). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Neuvième livraison. Paris, The author and J. Lamarre & Cie. 215 pp., 10 plsLima, S.F.B. & Christoffersen M.T. (2012) Checklist of Recent Cylindriscala (Caenogastropoda: Epitoniidae) of the world. Check List 8(4): 740–743Brown 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 Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
Epitoniidae
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