Cirsotrema
Encyclopedia
Cirsostrema is a genus
of very small deepwater sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Epitoniidae, commonly known as the wentletrap
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The type species of the family is Cirsotrema varicosa Lamarck, 1822.
Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of very small deepwater sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
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Epitoniidae, commonly known as the wentletrap
Wentletrap
Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Epitoniidae.The word wentletrap originated in Dutch , and it means spiral staircase...
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The type species of the family is Cirsotrema varicosa Lamarck, 1822.
Species
- Cirsotrema amamiense Nakayama, 2000
- Cirsotrema amplsum Nakayama, 2000
- Cirsotrema benettorum Garcia, 2000
- Cirsotrema bona J.C. Melvill, 1906
- Cirsotrema browni Poppe, 2008
- Cirsotrema canephora J.C. Melvill, 1906
- Cirsotrema cloveri Brown, 2002
- Cirsotrema cochlea (Sowerby G.B. II,1844)
- Cirsotrema cribaria A. Adams, 1861
- Cirsotrema dalli Rehder, 1945
- Cirsotrema edgari (DeBoury, 1912)
- Cirsotrema ernestoilaoi Garcia E., 2001
- Cirsotrema excelsum Garcia, 2003
- Cirsotrema fimbriatula P. Masahito, T. Kuroda & T. Habe, 1971
- Cirsotrema fregata (IredaleTom IredaleTom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
, 1936) - Cirsotrema fusticulus (Monterosato,1875)
- Cirsotrema goodalliana
- Cirsotrema herosae Garcia, 2003
- Cirsotrema hertzae Garcia, 2010
- Cirsotrema intextum Bozzetti, 2007
- Cirsotrema kagayai T. Habe & Ito, 1965
- Cirsotrema kamiyanum T. Kuroda, 1946
- Cirsotrema kieneri'' C. E. Tapparone-Canefri, 1876
- Cirsotrema krousma R.N. Kilburn, 1985
- Cirsotrema martyr (IredaleTom IredaleTom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
, 1936) - Cirsotrema montrouzieri S. M. Souverbie, 1872
- Cirsotrema peltei (Viader, 1938)
- Cirsotrema pilsbryi McGinty, 1940
- Cirsotrema plexis Dall, 1925
- Cirsotrema rariforme Lamarck, 1822
- Cirsotrema richeri Garcia, 2003
- Cirsotrema rugosa (T. Kuroda & K. Ito, 1961)
- Cirsotrema skoglundae Garcia, 2010
- Cirsotrema soror Odhner, 1919
- Cirsotrema texta E. A. Smith, 1903
- Cirsotrema togata (L. G. HertleinLeo George HertleinLeo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
& A. M. Strong, 1951) - Cirsotrema trabeculata (A. Adams, 1861)
- Cirsotrema translucida (Gatliff, 1906)
- ''Cirsotrema turbonilla A. Adams, 1861
- Cirsotrema turriculoides Yokoyama, 1920
- Cirsotrema valida (Verco, 1906)
- Cirsotrema varicosum (Lamarck, 1822)
- Cirsotrema vulpina (R. B. Hinds, 1844)
- Cirsotrema zografakisi Poppe, Tagaro & Brown, 2006
Species brought into synonymy :
- Cirsotrema bavayi DeBoury, 1913 : synonym of Cirsotrema varicosum (Lamarck, 1822)
- Cirsotrema forresti DellRichard DellDr Richard Kenneth Dell was a New Zealand malacologist. He was born in Auckland. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitemata Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard...
, 1956 : synonym of Boreoscala zeleboriBoreoscala zeleboriBoreoscala zelebori, common name : the slender wentletrap, is species of very small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.-Description:The shell size varies between 12 mm and 25 mm...
(Dunker, 1866) - Cirsotrema hidryma J. C. Melvill, 1899 : synonym of Opalia hidryma (Melvill, 1899)
- Cirsotrema invalida Verco, 1906 : synonym of Plastiscala invalida (Verco, 1906)
- Cirsotrema morchi G. F. Angas, 1871 : synonym of Plastiscala morchi (Angas, 1871)
- Cirsotrema morchi profundior IredaleTom IredaleTom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
, 1936 : synonym of Plastiscala morchi profundior Iredale, 1936
- Cirsotrema morchi profundior Iredale
- Cirsotrema multiperforata Sowerby, 1874 : synonym of Cirsotrema varicosum (Lamarck, 1822)
- Cirsotrema perplexa W. H. Pease, 1860 : synonym of Gyroscala lamellosa (Lamarck, 1822)
- Cirsotrema suturalis R. B. Hinds, 1844 : synonym of Plastiscala suturalis (Hinds, 1843)
- Cirsotrema undulata Sowerby, 1844 : synonym of Acirsa borealis (Lyell, 1841)
- Cirsotrema zelebori (Dunker,1866): synonym of Boreoscala zeleboriBoreoscala zeleboriBoreoscala zelebori, common name : the slender wentletrap, is species of very small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.-Description:The shell size varies between 12 mm and 25 mm...
(Dunker, 1866)