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Tritonalia lurida aspera

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy

Vitularia aspera was named by Baird (1863). It is extant.

It was recombined as Ocinebra lurida aspera by Arnold (1903); it was recombined as Tritonalia lurida aspera by Grant and IV and Gale (1931); it was recombined as Ocenebra lurida aspera by Addicott (1966).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Murex aciculata, Murex corallina, Murex decussata, Murex decussatus, Murex edwardsi, Murex miscowicki, Murex pallaryi, Murex purpruoides, Purpura austriaca, Purpura confluens, Purpura delbosiana, Purpura erinacea, Purpura granulifera, Purpura kojumdgievae, Purpura volzi, T. cala, T. cellulosa, T. parva, T. purpuroides, T. scabrosa, T. urgonense

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1863	Vitularia aspera Baird p. 66
1903	Ocinebra lurida aspera Arnold p. 257
1931	Tritonalia lurida aspera Grant, IV and Gale p. 711 figs. Plate 32, Figure 4
1966	Ocenebra lurida aspera Addicott p. C4

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Ocinebrinae	Cossmann 1903
genus	Tritonalia	Houart et al. 2019
species	lurida	(Middendorff 1848)
subspecies	aspera	(Baird 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.

Tritonalia lurida aspera Baird 1863

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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: 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 (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	USA (California)	Ocinebra lurida (222664 222665)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (California)	Ocenebra lurida (37672 240635 240636) Ocinebra lurida (222659 222660 222661 222662 240644 240647 240648 240650 240651 240653 240655)