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Eccliseogyra

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

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Eccliseogyra
Shell of Eccliseogyra brasiliensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: Epitonioidea
Family: Epitoniidae
Genus: Eccliseogyra
Dall, 1892
Type species
Delphinula nitida Verrill & S. Smith, 1885
Synonyms
  • Abyssiscala de Boury, 1911
  • Liotia (Eccliseogyra) Dall, 1892 (original rank)
  • Solutiscala de Boury, 1909

Eccliseogyra 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 Ecclesiogyra :1

  • Eccliseogyra aethiopica (Thiele, 1925)
  • Eccliseogyra brasiliensis Garcia, 2011
  • Eccliseogyra exquisita Bouchet & Warén, 1986
  • Eccliseogyra folini (Dautzenberg & de Boury, 1897)
  • Eccliseogyra formosissima (Jeffreys, 1884)
  • Eccliseogyra fragilissima (Schepman, 1909)
  • Eccliseogyra frausseni L. G. Brown, 2019
  • Eccliseogyra jungcheni K.-Y. Lai, 2018
  • Eccliseogyra maracatu S. Lima & Christoffersen, 2013
  • Eccliseogyra monnioti Bouchet & Warén, 1986
  • Eccliseogyra nitida (Verrill & S. Smith [in Verrill], 1885)
  • Eccliseogyra performosa (de Boury, 1917)
  • Eccliseogyra pyrrhias (R. B. Watson, 1886)
  • Eccliseogyra sericea Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Species brought into synonymy
  • Eccliseogyra capitata (Thiele, 1925) : synonym of Scala capitata Thiele, 1925
  • Eccliseogyra carchedon (Iredale, 1936) : synonym of Epitonium carchedon (Iredale, 1936)
  • Eccliseogyra dissoluta (Locard, 1897) : synonym of Eccliseogyra nitida (Verrill & S. Smith [in Verrill], 1885)
  • Eccliseogyra gratissima (Thiele, 1925) : synonym of Amaea gratissima (Thiele, 1925)
  • Eccliseogyra laxatoides Kuroda, 1995 : synonym of Cycloscala laxatoides (Nakayama, 1995)
  • Eccliseogyra nebulosa Dall, 1919 : synonym of Amaea brunneopicta (Dall, 1908)
  • Eccliseogyra striatissima (Monterosato, 1878) : synonym of Epitonium striatissimum (Monterosato, 1878)
References

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eccliseogyra Dall, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137942 on 2020-10-28
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