Cyrillia

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

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

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)