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Bathytoma granata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae

Taxonomy
Pleurotoma granata was named by Edwards (1861) [DISTRIBUTION: Eocene; western Europe.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Epalxis (Bathytoma) granata by Pacaud and Le Renard (1995); it was recombined as Bathytoma granata by Powell (1966), Jeffery and Tracey (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. bartumi, B. hemileia, B. rhomboidea

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Pleurotoma parilis Edwards
1861Pleurotoma rotundata Edwards
1861Pleurotoma granata Edwards pp. 308-309 figs. pl. 31, figs. 7a-c
1966Bathytoma granata Powell p. 63
1995Epalxis (Bathytoma) granata Pacaud and Le Renard
1997Bathytoma granata Jeffery and Tracey p. 100 figs. Pl 11, fig 15

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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
superfamilyConoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyBorsoniidae(Bellardi 1875)
genusBathytomaHarris and Burrows 1891
speciesgranata(Edwards 1861)

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.

†Bathytoma granata Edwards 1861
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Invalid names: Pleurotoma parilis Edwards 1861 [synonym], Pleurotoma rotundata Edwards 1861 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available