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Polystira barretti

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae

Taxonomy
Pleurotoma barretti was named by Guppy (1866) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene; Caribbean.]. Its type specimen is BMNH 64065, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Turris albida barretti by Weisbord (1929); it was recombined as Pleuroliria (Polystira) barretti by Woodring (1970); it was recombined as Polystira barretti by Woodring (1928), Thomas (1972) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. albidata, P. albidoides, P. panamensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Pleurotoma barretti Guppy p. 290 figs. pl. 17, fig. 6
1928Polystira barretti Woodring p. 146
1929Turris albida barretti Weisbord p. 53
1970Pleuroliria (Polystira) barretti Woodring p. 365
1972Polystira barretti Thomas p. 120
2010Polystira barretti Landau and Marques da Silva p. 110

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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
genusPolystira
speciesbarretti(Guppy 1866)

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.

†Polystira barretti Guppy 1866
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available