MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Acirsa Mörch, 1857

ERMS taxon details

Acirsa Mörch, 1857

AphiaID

137935 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137935)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Epitoniidae S. S. Berry, 1910 (1812)

Original name

Scalaria (Acirsa) Mörch, 1857

Synonymised names

Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) de Boury, 1909 · unaccepted

Pseudacirsa Kobelt, 1903 · unaccepted

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Species Acirsa borealis (Lyell, 1841)
Species Acirsa coarctata (Jeffreys, 1884)
Species Acirsa subdecussata (Cantraine, 1835)
Subgenus Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) de Boury, 1909 accepted as Acirsa Mörch, 1857
1. Species Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) corsicana F. Nordsieck, 1974 accepted as Opalia coronata (R. A. Philippi & Scacchi, 1840) (synonym)
Species Acirsa gracilis A. E. Verrill, 1880 accepted as Periapta gracilis (A. E. Verrill, 1880) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Acirsa praelonga Jeffreys, 1877 accepted as Papuliscala praelonga (Jeffreys, 1877) (original combination)
Species Acirsa sarsii (Kobelt, 1903) accepted as Gregorioiscala sarsii (Kobelt, 1903)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of ) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr, Prodromus fauna molluscorum grønlandicae. In Rink, H.J. (Ed.) Grönland Geographisk og Statistisk Beskrevet. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse ad Grönland. Vol. 4. Rink, Copenhagen. pp. 75–100. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein. 75-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28838318
page(s): 77 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acirsa Mörch, 1857. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137935 on 2025-04-23

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Acirsa Mörch, 1857. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137935 on 2025-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-04 10:51:58Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-12-18 14:59:23Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-03-30 14:49:15Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2019-08-11 19:48:27Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2023-07-17 12:01:34Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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original description (of ) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1857). Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr, Prodromus fauna molluscorum grønlandicae. In Rink, H.J. (Ed.) Grönland Geographisk og Statistisk Beskrevet. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse ad Grönland. Vol. 4. Rink, Copenhagen. pp. 75–100. Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein. 75-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28838318
page(s): 77 [details]

basis of record 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., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3907.1.1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Kilburn R.N. (1985). The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(1): 239-337., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/216603.pdf?
page(s): 243 [details] Available for editors

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Introduced: alien

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Acirsa eschrichtii

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Acirsa borealis

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