Short description: Genus of gastropods

Cyrillia

Shell of Cyrillia ephesina (holotype at MNHN Paris)
Scientific classification
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]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Species
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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].

## External links

* 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

See also Wikidata entry Q76448982.

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