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Pterospira mortoni

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy
Voluta mortoni was named by Tate (1889) [DISTRIBUTION: Cenozoic; Southern Australia.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Pterospira mortoni by Darragh (1970).

Entered
by A. Hendy on 2007-04-22

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Voluta mortoni Tate p. 124 figs. pl. 4, figs. 1, 2
1970Pterospira mortoni Darragh p. 182

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyVolutidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyZidoninaeAdams and A 1853
genusPterospiraGray 1855
speciesmortoni()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pterospira mortoni Tate 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available