Acrilla Explained

Acrilla is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.^[1]

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• Acrilla hedleyi (de Boury, 1912): synonym of Amaea hedleyi (de Boury, 1912) (superseded combination)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)

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

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acrilla H. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=517581 on 12 March 2024