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Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) cornutus

Artiopoda - Proetida - Proetidae

Taxonomy
Gerastos cornutus was named by Goldfuss (1843). It is the type species of Cornuproetus, Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus).

It was recombined as Cornuproetus cornutus by Richter and Richter (1919); it was recombined as Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) cornutus by Alberti (1969), Magrean and Van Viersen (2005).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. albertii, C. meinkenbrachiensis, C. peraticus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Gerastos cornutus Goldfuss
1919Cornuproetus cornutus Richter and Richter
1969Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) cornutus Alberti
2005Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) cornutus Magrean and Van Viersen p. 89 figs. Pl. 1, Figs. 1-7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
classArtiopodaHou and Bergstrom
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderProetidaFortey and Owens 1975
superfamilyProetoideaHawle and Corda 1847
familyProetidaeSalter 1864
subfamilyCornuproetinaeRichter et al. 1959
genusCornuproetusRichter and Richter 1919
subgenusCornuproetusRichter and Richter 1919
speciescornutus(Goldfuss 1843)

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.

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Diagnosis
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