Cylindriscala

Cylindriscala
Shell of Cylindriscala mirifica (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	incertae sedis
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Cylindriscala de Boury, 1909
Type species
Scala fulgens de Boury, 1909
Synonyms
Lampropalia Kuroda & Ito, 1961 Scala (Cylindriscala) de Boury, 1909 (original rank) Torquatiscala de Boury, 1912

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

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, 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 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

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• Cossmann, M. (1912). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Neuvième livraison. Paris, The author and J. Lamarre & Cie. 215 pp., 10 pls
• Lima, S.F.B. & Christoffersen M.T. (2012) Checklist of Recent Cylindriscala (Caenogastropoda: Epitoniidae) of the world. Check List 8(4): 740–743
• 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
• 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