Acirsa

Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.^[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Acirsa :^[1]

• Acirsa amara Kilburn, 1985
• Acirsa antarctica (E. A. Smith, 1907)
• Acirsa borealis (Lyell, 1841) - chalky wentletrap, Okhotsk wentletrap
• 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 martensi (de Boury, 1913)
• Acirsa mcleani Sirenko, 2009
• Acirsa morsei (Yokoyama, 1926)
• Acirsa murrha (DuShane, 1970)
• Acirsa ochotensis (Middendorff, 1848)
• Acirsa subdecussata (Cantraine, 1835)
• Acirsa symphylla (Martens, 1878)

The following species are also named by ITIS and in the book New Zealand Mollusca, by A. Powell ^[2]

• 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 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 Murdoch, R. & H. Suter, 1906
• Acirsa turrita Parona, 1894
• Acirsa vayssierei
• 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 Acirsa martensi (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 ^[3]

References

• "Acirsa". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 
• Mørch O. A. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. [in Rink, Grønland geographisk og statistik beskrivet. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein : 75-100]
• 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