Acrilla

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Acrilla
Shell of † Acrilla perangusta (specimen at the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: Epitonioidea
Family: Epitoniidae
Genus: Acrilla
H. Adams, 1860
Type species
Scalaria acuminata G. B. Sowerby II, 1844
Synonyms[1]
  • Amaea (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860
  • Epitonium (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860 alternative representation
  • Scala (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860
  • Scalaria (Acrilla) H. Adams, 1860
  • Scalaria (Adiscoacrilla) Sacco, 1890 (junior subjective synonym)

Acrilla is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.[1]

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