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Pyrazus

Gastropoda - Batillariidae

Taxonomy
Pyrazus was named by Monfort (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: K Apti R Sepkoski's reference number: 157]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Potamides (Pyrazus) by Martin (1884); it was reranked as Cerithium (Pyrazus) by Termier (1954).

It was assigned to Potamides by Martin (1884); to Cerithium by Termier (1954); to Pyrazidae by Hacobjan (1972); to Potamidinae by Allison (1955), Adegoke (1977), Gliozzi and Malatesta (1983) and Kase (1984); to Potamididae by Olsson (1967) and Beu et al. (1990); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Batillariidae by Wilson (1993), Pacaud and Le Renard (1995), Harzhauser (2004) and Bouchet et al. (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1810Pyrazus Monfort
1884Potamides (Pyrazus) Martin p. 146
1954Cerithium (Pyrazus) Termier
1955Pyrazus Allison p. 418
1967Pyrazus Olsson p. 38
1972Pyrazus Hacobjan p. 6
1977Pyrazus Adegoke p. 111
1983Pyrazus Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 101
1984Pyrazus Kase p. 137
1990Pyrazus Beu et al. p. 406
1993Pyrazus Wilson p. 113
1995Pyrazus Pacaud and Le Renard p. 156
2002Pyrazus Sepkoski
2004Pyrazus Harzhauser p. 122
2005Pyrazus Bouchet et al. pp. 149, 248

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyBatillariidae(Thiele 1929)
genusPyrazusMonfort 1810

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.

G. Pyrazus Monfort 1810
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Pyrazus consobrinus Powell and Bartrum 1929
Pyrazus ebeninus Bruguière 1792
Pyrazus elongatum Douvillé 1904
Pyrazus indicus Cox 1931
Pyrazus nigeriensis Adegoke 1977
Pyrazus octogonus Cox 1930
Pyrazus protobeninus Vredenburg 1928
Pyrazus sutherlandi Marwick 1929
Pyrazus valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868
Pyrazus waitemataensis Powell and Bartrum 1929
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available