Genus Acirsa Mörch, 1857

Museums

Regional Maps

• Obstopalia Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [299].

  Type species:

   Obstopalia lixa Iredale, 1936 by original designation.
• Acirsa Mörch, O.A.L. 1857. Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr. pp. 75-95 in Rink, H. (Ed.). Grönland Geographisk og Statistisk Beskrevet. Copenhagen : I Commission hos Universitetsboghandler Andr. Fred. Høst. [77].

  Type species:

   Scalaria borealis Lyell, 1841 by monotypy.
• Hemiacirsa Boury, E. de. 1890. Révision des Scalidae Miocènes et Pliocènes de l'Italie. Bullettino della Società Italiana di Malacologia 14: 161–326, pl. 4 [268] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Turbo lanceolatus Brocchi, 1814 by original designation.
• Pseudacirsa Kobelt, W. 1902-1905. Iconographie der Schalentragenden Europäischen Meeresconchylien. Wiesbaden : C. W. Kreidel pp. 406. [Bibliographic note: publication dates of the parts: Vol. Lief 1–24 (1902), 25–200 (1903), 201–272 (1904), 273–406 (1905), given on individual part title pages] [26] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scalaria coarctata Jeffreys, 1884 by subsequent designation, see De Boury, E.A. 1911. Etude sur les sous-genres de Scalidae, vivants et fossiles, II-III. Journal de Conchyliologie 58(3): 212-260 [220].
• Plesioacirsa De Boury, E.A. 1909. Catalogue des Sous-Genres de Scalidae. Journal de Conchyliologie 57: 255-258 [256] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scalaria subdecussata Cantraine, 1835 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Nakayama, T. 2003. A review of northwest Pacific Epitoniids (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Monographs of marine mollusca No. 6. Leiden, The Netherlands : Backhuys Publishers pp. 1-143. [87]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [217]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	11-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	26-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED