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Eupleura plicata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Ranella plicata was named by Reeve (1844) [DISTRIBUTION: Pliocene-Recent; Peru-California.]. It is extant. Its type specimen is UMCZ I.100.275, a shell.

It was synonymized subjectively with Eupleura muriciformis by Grant and IV and Gale (1931); it was recombined as Eupleura plicata by Herbert (2005), Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1844Ranella plicata Reeve p. 138
2005Eupleura plicata Herbert p. 317
2010Eupleura plicata Landau and Marques da Silva p. 66

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyOcenebrinaeCossmann 1903
genusEupleuraAdams and Adams 1853
speciesplicata(Reeve 1844)

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.

Eupleura plicata Reeve 1844
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:22:24
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:22:24
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available