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Hesperisternia waltonia

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Taxonomy
Hesperisternia waltonia was named by Gardner (1944). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 3856 - Mossyhead [Shoal River Fm], which is in a Serravallian marine marl/sandstone in the Shoal River Formation of Florida. It is the type species of Hesperisternia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. bainbridgensis, H. chipolana, H. waltonianum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1944Hesperisternia waltonia Gardner p. 72
2010Hesperisternia waltonia Landau and Marques da Silva p. 72

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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
superfamilyBuccinoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyBuccinidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyPisaniinaeGray 1857
genusHesperisterniaGardner 1944
specieswaltoniaGardner 1944

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.

†Hesperisternia waltonia Gardner 1944
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Diagnosis
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