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Tegula pellisserpentis

Gastropoda - Tegulidae

Taxonomy
Trochus pellisserpentis was named by Wood (1828) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; South America.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Tegula.

It was recombined as Tegula pellisserpentis by DeVries (2007).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. mariana

Synonyms
  • Trochus elegans was named by Lesson (1835) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; South America.]. It is extant.

    It was recombined as Tegula elegans by Lesson (1835); it was synonymized subjectively with Tegula pellisserpentis by DeVries (2007).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Trochus pellisserpentis Wood
1835Tegula elegans Lesson
1835Trochus elegans Lesson
2007Tegula pellisserpentis DeVries p. 164

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassVetigastropoda(Salvini-Plawen 1980)
superfamilyTrochoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTegulidae(Kuroda et al. 1971)
genusTegulaLesson 1835
speciespellisserpentis(Wood 1828)

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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Invalid names: Tegula elegans Lesson 1835 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilesuperf
Life habit: epifaunalsuperf
Diet: grazersuperf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:47:46
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:47:46
Source: superf = superfamily, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available