Cyrillia

Genus of gastropods

Cyrillia
Shell of Cyrillia ephesina (holotype at MNHN Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Cyrillia
Kobelt, 1905
Type species
Murex linearis
Montagu, 1803
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cenodagreutes E. H. Smith, 1967
  • Cordieria (Cirillia) Monterosato, 1884 (invalid: junior homonym of Cirillia Rondani, 1856 [Diptera]; Cyrillia is an emendation and Lineotoma is a replacement name)
  • Lineotoma F. Nordsieck, 1977

Cyrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

The shells are rather small (5 to 10 mm), showing a reticulate structure. The aperture is piriform. The outer lip is slightly crenulate, within incrassate and distinctly denticulate.[2]

Species

  • Cyrillia aequalis (Jeffreys, 1867)
  • Cyrillia ephesina (Pusateri, Giannuzzi-Savelli & Stahlschmidt, 2017)
  • † Cyrillia georgesi (Ceulemans, Van Dingenen & Landau, 2018)
  • Cyrillia kabuli (Rolán, Otero-Schmitt & F. Fernandes, 1998)
  • Cyrillia linearis (Montagu, 1803)
  • † Cyrillia michalidesi Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2020
  • Cyrillia obesa (Høisæter, 2016)
  • Cyrillia zamponorum (Horro, Gori & Rolán, 2019)

References

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Cyrillia Kobelt, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578680 on 2019-11-24
  2. ^ Kobelt, W. (1887-1908). Iconographie der schalentragenden europäischen Meeresconchylien. 1: 1-171 pl. 1-28 [1887]. Part 2: 1-16 pl. 29-32 [1888] 17-40 pl. 33-38 [1889] 41-104 pl. 39-50 [1900] 105-139 pl. 51-58 [1901]. Part 3: 1-24 pl. 59-62 [1902] 25-200 pl. 63-78 [1903] 201-272 pl. 79-84, 86-87 [1904] 273-406 [1905]. Part 4: 1-80 pl. 99-114 [1906] 81-172 pl. 115-126 [1908].
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  • Smith E.H. (1967). Two new species of British turrids. The Veliger. 10(1): 1-4
  • Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp
  • Fassio, G.; Russini, V.; Pusateri, F.; Giannuzzi-Savelli, R.; Høisæter, T.; Puillandre, N.; Modica, M. V.; Oliverio, M. (2019). An assessment of Raphitoma and allied genera (Neogastropoda: Raphitomidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies
Taxon identifiers
Cyrillia