Acrilla

Acrilla
Shell of † Acrilla perangusta (specimen at the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	incertae sedis
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Acrilla H. Adams, 1860
Type species
Scalaria acuminata G. B. Sowerby II, 1844
Synonyms
Amaea (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860 Epitonium (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860 alternative representation Scala (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860 Scalaria (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860 † Scalaria (Adiscoacrilla) Sacco, 1890 (junior subjective synonym)

Acrilla is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.

Species

• Acrilla acuminata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1844)
• † Acrilla affinis (Deshayes, 1861)
• † Acrilla constantinensis Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902
• † Acrilla crebrilamellata (Tate, 1890)
• † Acrilla cuisensis de Boury, 1887
• † Acrilla desertorum (Wanner, 1902)
• † Acrilla deslongchampsi (de Raincourt & Munier-Chalmas, 1863)
• † Acrilla essomiensis de Boury, 1887
• † Acrilla fayellensis de Boury, 1887
• † Acrilla fourtaui Cossmann, 1901
• † Acrilla gallica de Boury, 1887
• † Acrilla grignonensis (Cossmann, 1888)
• † Acrilla lamberti (Deshayes, 1861)
• † Acrilla leptalea (Tate, 1893)
• Acrilla minor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1873)
• † Acrilla miobronni (Sacco, 1891)
• † Acrilla perangusta (de Boury, 1913)
• † Acrilla phoenix (de Boury, 1913)
• † Acrilla praedecussata de Boury, 1912
• † Acrilla reticulata (Solander in Brander, 1766)
• † Acrilla semicostata (J. Sowerby, 1814)

Synonyms

• Acrilla adenensis Jousseaume, 1912: synonym of Acrilla minor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1873) (junior subjective synonym)
• Acrilla analogica Barnard, 1963: synonym of Plastiscala analogica (Barnard, 1963) (original combination)
• Acrilla cophinodes (Melvill, 1904): synonym of Epitonium cophinodes (Melvill, 1904)
• † Acrilla decussata (Lamarck, 1804) : synonym of † Amaea decussata (Lamarck, 1804)
• Acrilla gracilis H. Adams, 1860: synonym of Scalaria minor G. B. Sowerby II, 1873: synonym of Acrilla minor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1873) (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Scalaria gracilis G.B. Sowerby II, 1844; Scalaria minor G. B. Sowerby II, 1873 is a replacement name.)
• Acrilla hedleyi (de Boury, 1912): synonym of Amaea hedleyi (de Boury, 1912) (superseded combination)
• † Acrilla kaiparaensis Laws, 1944: synonym of † Cylindriscala kaiparaensis (Laws, 1944) (original combination)
• Acrilla natalis Barnard, 1963: synonym of Amaea natalis (Barnard, 1963)
• Acrilla recreata (de Boury, 1919): synonym of Epitonium kraussi (Nyst, 1873)
• Acrilla thalia Bartsch, 1915: synonym of Acrilla minor (G. B. Sowerby II, 1873) (junior synonym)
• † Acrilla weigandi (Böse, 1910) : synonym of † Amaea ferminiana (Dall, 1908)

References

External links

• Adams, H. (1860). Description of a new genus and species of mollusk. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28 (1860): 241–242
• Sacco, F. (1890). Catalogo paleontologico del bacino terziaro del Piemonte. Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana. 8(3): 281–356; 9(2): 185–340
• Brown 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

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