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Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) miranda

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae

Taxonomy
Pleurotoma miranda was named by Guppy (1882) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene; Caribbean.]. Its type specimen is USNM 115584, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Pleurotoma (Ancistrosyrinx) miranda by Dall (1903); it was recombined as Ancistrosyrinx miranda by Woodring (1928) and Perrilliat Montoya (1960); it was synonymized subjectively with Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) cedonulli by Woodring (1970); it was recombined as Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) miranda by Hendy et al. (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Ancistrosyrinx greggi, C. cookei, Surcula koeneni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Pleurotoma miranda Guppy pp. 178-179 figs. pl. 9, fig. 19
1903Pleurotoma (Ancistrosyrinx) miranda Dall p. 1583
1928Ancistrosyrinx miranda Woodring p. 165
1960Ancistrosyrinx miranda Perrilliat Montoya p. 29
2008Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) miranda Hendy et al.

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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)
familyCochlespiridae(Powell 1942)
genusCochlespiraConrad 1865
subgenusAncistrosyrinx
speciesmiranda(Guppy 1882)

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