Genus Cirsotrema Mörch, 1852

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• Cirsotrema Mörch, O.A.L. 1852. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit d. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, regis daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis caroli Tertii eques. Part 1. Cephalophora. Copenhagen : Hafinae Vol. 1 170 pp. [49] [Cyrsotrema [Sacco, 1892, I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 10: 66] is an incorrect subsequent spelling].

  Type species:

   Scalaria varicosa Lamarck, 1812 by monotypy.
• Dannevigena Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [303] [subjective synonym; junior subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Dannevigena martyr Iredale, 1936 by original designation.
• Cirsotremopsis Thiele, J. 1928. Über ptenoglosse Schnecken. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 132: 73-94 [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scalaria cochlea Sowerby, 1844 by monotypy.
• Laniscala Lan, T.C. 1976. A new subgenus and species of Epitonium from off southwest of Taiwan. Bulletin of the Chinese Malacological Society 3: 21-23 [22] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Epitonium (Laniscala) eboreus Lan, 1976 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 [21]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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. [23, 25]

Nützel, A. 1997. Über die Stammesgeschichte der Ptenoglossa (Gastropoda). Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 26: 1-229 [93]

Weil, A., Brown, L & Neville, B. 1999. The Wentletrap Book (Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world). Rome : Evolver 244 pp. [128] (Dannivigena)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [274, 275 (Dannevigena)]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	EPITONIOIDEA	07-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Lyn Randall
		13-Feb-2012	MODIFIED