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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Cirsotrema
Species:	C. zelebori
Binomial name
*Cirsotrema zelebori* (Dunker, 1866)
Synonyms
Boreoscala zelebori (Dunker, 1866) Cirsotrema forresti (Dell, 1956) Cirsotrema reevei Clessin, 1897 Epitonium (Asperiscala) forresti Dell, R.K. Epitonium zelebori Frauenfeld, 1898 Scalaria intermedia Hutton, 1873 Scalaria zelebori Dunker, 1866 Tioria forresti Dell, 1956

Cirsotrema zelebori, common name : the slender wentletrap, is species of very small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.

Description

The shell size varies between 12 mm and 25 mm

Distribution

This species is endemic to the seas off the southern islands of New Zealand

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