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Brachycythara gibba

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae

Taxonomy
Cythara gibba was named by Guppy (1896) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Dominican Republic.]. Its type specimen is USNM 107144, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Brachycythara gibba by Woodring (1928), Hendy et al. (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. dasa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1896Cythara gibba Guppy p. 306 figs. p. 27, fig. 9
1917Cythara gibba Maury p. 59
1928Brachycythara gibba Woodring p. 175
2008Brachycythara gibba 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)
familyMangeliidae(Fischer 1884)
genusBrachycythara
speciesgibba(Guppy 1896)

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.

†Brachycythara gibba Guppy 1896
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available