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Sveltia inquilinus

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

Taxonomy
Cancellaria (Sveltia) inquilinus was named by Jung and Petit (1990). Its type specimen is NMB H 17309, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is TU 1227, Río Amina [Gurabo Fm], which is in a Messinian shallow subtidal siliciclastic in the Gurabo Formation of the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Sveltia inquilinus by Landau et al. (2012).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Narona tricarinata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Cancellaria (Sveltia) inquilinus Jung and Petit
2012Sveltia inquilinus Landau et al. p. 329

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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
superfamilyCancellarioideaGray 1853
familyCancellariidaeGray 1853
genusSveltiaJousseaume 1887
speciesinquilinus()

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.

†Sveltia inquilinus Jung and Petit 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available