''Ecclesiogyra'' is a
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predatory
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sea snail
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s,
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prosobranch
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gastropod
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s in the
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Epitoniidae
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, commonly known as wentletraps.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eccliseogyra Dall, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137942 on 2020-10-28]
Species
According to the
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, the following species with valid names are included within the genus ''Ecclesiogyra'' :
* ''
Eccliseogyra aethiopica''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Eccliseogyra brasiliensis''
Garcia, 2011
* ''
Eccliseogyra exquisita''
Bouchet & Warén, 1986
* ''
Eccliseogyra folini''
(Dautzenberg & de Boury, 1897)
* ''
Eccliseogyra formosissima''
(Jeffreys, 1884)
* ''
Eccliseogyra fragilissima''
(Schepman, 1909)
* ''
Eccliseogyra frausseni''
L. G. Brown, 2019
* ''
Eccliseogyra jungcheni''
K.-Y. Lai, 2018
* ''
Eccliseogyra maracatu''
S. Lima & Christoffersen, 2013
* ''
Eccliseogyra monnioti''
Bouchet & Warén, 1986
* ''
Eccliseogyra nitida''
(Verrill & S. Smith n Verrill 1885)
* ''
Eccliseogyra performosa''
(de Boury, 1917)
* ''
Eccliseogyra pyrrhias''
(R. B. Watson, 1886)
* ''
Eccliseogyra sericea''
Bouchet & Warén, 1986
;Species brought into synonymy :
* ''Eccliseogyra capitata''
(Thiele, 1925) : synonym of ''
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''
Thiele, 1925
* ''Eccliseogyra carchedon''
(Iredale, 1936) : synonym of ''
Epitonium carchedon
''Epitonium'' is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. ''Epitonium'' is the type genus of the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Epitonium Röding, 1798. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Ros ...
''
(Iredale, 1936)
* ''Eccliseogyra dissoluta''
(Locard, 1897) : synonym of ''
Eccliseogyra nitida''
(Verrill & S. Smith n Verrill 1885)
* ''Eccliseogyra gratissim''a
(Thiele, 1925) : synonym of ''
Amaea gratissima''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''Eccliseogyra laxatoides''
Kuroda, 1995 : synonym of ''
Cycloscala laxatoides
''Cycloscala'' is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). ''Cycloscala'' Dall, 1889 . Accessed through: World Register of Mari ...
''
(Nakayama, 1995)
* ''Eccliseogyra nebulosa''
Dall, 1919 : synonym of ''
Amaea brunneopicta''
(Dall, 1908)
* ''Eccliseogyra striatissima''
(Monterosato, 1878) : synonym of ''
Epitonium striatissimum''
(Monterosato, 1878)
References
External links
Dall W.H. (1892). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. 2. Streptodont and other gastropods, concluded. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia. 3(2): 201-473Brown 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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