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Pseudomelatoma penicillata moesta

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae

Taxonomy
Drillia moesta was named by Carpenter (1863). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH ??? (not stated in text), a shell.

It was recombined as Pleurotoma (Drillia) moesta by Weinkauff (1876); it was recombined as Pseudomelatoma moesta by Dall (1921), Jordan (1926) and Oldroyd (1927); it was recombined as Pseudomelatoma penicillata moesta by Grant and IV and Gale (1931); it was synonymized subjectively with Pseudomelatoma penicillata by Hendy (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. tororsa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1863Drillia moesta Carpenter p. 657
1876Pleurotoma (Drillia) moesta Weinkauff p. 134 figs. pl 30, figs. 5, 8
1921Pseudomelatoma moesta Dall p. 70
1926Pseudomelatoma moesta Jordan p. 245
1927Pseudomelatoma moesta Oldroyd p. 75
1931Pseudomelatoma penicillata moesta Grant, IV and Gale p. 561

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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
superfamilyConoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTurridaeSwainson 1840
genusPseudomelatomaDall 1918
speciespenicillata(Carpenter 1864)
subspeciesmoesta(Carpenter 1863)

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
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 08:09:25
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:09:25
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117USA (California) Drillia moesta (222646)