Filiscala

Filiscala
Shell of Filiscala raricosta (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Filiscala de Boury, 1911
Type species
Turbo martinii W. Wood, 1828
Species
See text.

Filiscala is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.

Species

Species within the genus Filiscala include:

• Filiscala raricosta (Lamarck, 1804)
• Filiscala youngi (Kilburn, 1985)

Species brought into synonymy

• Filiscala martinii (W. Wood, 1828): synonym of Filiscala raricosta (Lamarck, 1804)

References

• 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