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Fissurella nimbosa
Taxonomy
Patella nimbosa was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; circum-Caribbean.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Fissurella, Fissurella (Fissurella).
It was recombined as Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa by Weisbord (1962), DeVries (2008); it was recombined as Fissurella nimbosa by Lamarck (1822), Landau et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa by Weisbord (1962), DeVries (2008); it was recombined as Fissurella nimbosa by Lamarck (1822), Landau et al. (2016).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
F. alabama, F. costata, F. costicillatissima, F. cumingii, F. glarea, F. incarnata, F. macrotrema, F. mediavia, F. migeriensis, F. mississippiensis, F. mutabilis, F. natalensis, F. nubecua, F. nubecula, F. oriens, F. picta, F. radiosa, F. reticulata, F. robusta, F. rugosa, F. virescens, F. longipora, F. ruppellii, F. arguta
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Patella nimbosa Linnaeus p. 785 |
| 1822 | Fissurella nimbosa Lamarck p. 10 |
| 1962 | Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa Weisbord p. 60 |
| 2008 | Fissurella (Fissurella) nimbosa DeVries p. 130 |
| 2016 | Fissurella nimbosa Landau et al. p. 10 |
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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.
Fissurella nimbosa Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pliocene or 3.60000 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Venezuela | Fissurella nimbosa (131210) |