Cirsonella

Cirsonella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Cirsonella
Shell of † Cirsonella funata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Cirsonella
Angas, 1877
Type species
Cirsonella australis
Angas, 1877
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Porcupinia Cossmann, 1900
  • Tharsiella Bush, 1897
  • Tharsis Jeffreys, 1883 (preoccupied by Tharsis Giebel, 1847 (Pisces))

Description

(Original description by G. Angas) The minute, smooth shell is globosely turbinate. It is narrowly umbilicated. The aperture is circular. The continuous peristome is slightly thickened.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Cirsonella include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cirsonella accelerans C. A. Fleming, 1948: synonym of Cirsonella variecostata Powell, 1940
  • Cirsonella australis Angas, 1877: synonym of Cirsonella weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
  • Cirsonella granum Murdoch and Suter, 1906: synonym of Lissotesta granum (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
  • Cirsonella kerguelenensis [sic]: synonym of Cirsonella kerguelensis Thiele, 1912
  • Cirsonella naticoides (Hedley, 1907): synonym of Cirsonella weldii (Tenison Woods, 1877)
  • Cirsonella neozelanica Murdoch, 1899: synonym of Suterilla neozelanica (Murdoch, 1899)
  • Cirsonella perplexa Laseron, 1954: synonym of Cirsonella reflecta Laseron, 1954
  • Cirsonella simplex Powell, 1937: synonym of Acremodontina simplex (Powell, 1937)
  • Cirsonella translucida May, 1915: synonym of Acremodontina translucida (May, 1915)

References
  1. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Cirsonella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138494 on 2012-05-23
  2. G. Angas, Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877
  • Angas, 1877 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877: 38
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. (1962). A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum. 11 : 1-109
  • Lozouet, P., 1998. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Cossmanniana 5(3-4): 61-102
  • 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
  • Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp

Further reading
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Taxonomicon info:


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