Cylindriscala
de Boury, 1909
Shells with whorls attached, strongly sculptured with axial costae and generally with spiral threads. Basal ridge strongly developed. Nuclear whorls 3 and smooth. [Clench & Turner, 1952).
Bouchet & Warén (1986) state that De Boury did not give a definition of Cylindriscala when he introduced the name. They use Cylindriscala for tall, slender epitoniids with broad, not lamellar axial ribs and wel defined basal disc; protoconch multispiral, smooth
Genotype:
Type species: Scala fulgens de Boury, 1909 (by original designation).
Literature cited:
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1986). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Aclididae Eulimidae, Epitonidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda).. Bollettino Malacologico.. suppl. 2. pp: 297-576
Brown, L. & 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). pp: 001-188
Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1952). The Genus Epitonium in the Western Atlantic pt 2. Jonsonia. 2(31). pp: 289
Cylindriscala acus (Watson, 1883)
Clessin, S. (1897). Plate 11. Fig. 2.
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