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Murchisonia defrancei

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae

Taxonomy
Pleurotomaria defrancii was named by d’Archiac and de Verneuil (1842) [Pleurotomaria Defrancii]. It is not extant.

It was corrected as Pleurotomaria defrancei by Holzapfel (1895), Beyer (1896), Lotz (1900); it was recombined as Murchisonia defrancei by Kirchner (1915), Heidelberger (2001), Basse and Heidelberger (2002), Wagner (2023).

Entered
by P. Wagner on 2006-03-23; modified by P. Wagner on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Pleurotomaria defrancii d’Archiac and de Verneuil p. 360 figs. pl. 32 f. 22, 22a
1844Pleurotomaria defrancii Goldfuss p. 64 figs. pl. 182 f. 3a-b
1844Pleurotomaria defrancii de Koninck p. 392 figs. pl. 34 f. 3a-c
1895Pleurotomaria defrancei Holzapfel p. 352
1896Pleurotomaria defrancei Beyer p. 76 figs. pl. 2 f. 51
1900Pleurotomaria defrancei Lotz p. 206
1915Murchisonia defrancei Kirchner p. 209
2001Murchisonia defrancei Heidelberger pp. 131 - 132 figs. pl. 10 f. 13-14
2002Murchisonia defrancei Basse and Heidelberger p. 77 figs. pl. 1 f. 1-4; text f. 2
2023Murchisonia defrancei Wagner p. 3849

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyMurchisonioidea()
familyMurchisoniidae
genusMurchisonia
speciesdefrancei()

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.

Murchisonia defrancei d’Archiac and de Verneuil 1842
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Diagnosis
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