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Distorsio anus

Gastropoda - Personidae

Taxonomy
Murex anus was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; Indo-Pacific]. It is extant. It is the type species of Distorsio, Distorsio (Distorsio).

It was recombined as Distorsio (Distorsio) anus by Woodring (1928); it was recombined as Distorsio anus by Röding (1798), Pilsbry (1922), Harzhauser et al. (2009) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Murex anus Linnaeus
1798Distorsio anus Röding p. 133
1922Distorsio anus Pilsbry p. 357
1928Distorsio (Distorsio) anus Woodring p. 299
2009Distorsio anus Harzhauser et al. p. 348
2010Distorsio anus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 55

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyTonnoidea(Suter 1913)
familyPersonidaeGray 1854
genusDistorsioRöding 1798
speciesanus(Linnaeus 1758)

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.

Distorsio anus Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
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