Ecclesiogyra Explained

Ecclesiogyra 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 :

• 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)

External links

• Dall W.H. (1892). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. 2. Streptodont and other gastropods, concluded. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia. 3(2): 201-473
• 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

Notes and 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