Cylindriscala

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Cylindriscala

Shell of Cylindriscala mirifica (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
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.[1]

## Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Cylindriscala :[1]

* 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cylindriscala de Boury, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137941 on 2020-10-04

* 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

* Boury E. (de) (1909). Catalogue des sous-genres de Scalidae. Journal de Conchyliologie, 57: 255-258
* 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

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