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Sconsia laevigata

Gastropoda - Cassidae

Taxonomy
Cassidaria laevigata was named by Guppy (1850) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Caribbean.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Sconsia (Sconsia) laevigata by Pflug (1961); it was recombined as Sconsia laevigata by Brown and Pilsbry (1911), Maury (1917), Olsson (1922), Anderson (1929), Petuch (1988) and Beu (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. prelintea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Cassidaria laevigata Guppy p. 47 figs. pl. 10, fig. 2
1911Sconsia laevigata Brown and Pilsbry p. 357
1917Sconsia laevigata Maury p. 111
1922Sconsia laevigata Olsson p. 136
1929Sconsia laevigata Anderson p. 142
1961Sconsia (Sconsia) laevigata Pflug p. 36
1988Sconsia laevigata Petuch p. 157
2010Sconsia laevigata Beu p. 236

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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
superfamilyTonnoidea(Suter 1913)
familyCassidaeLatreille 1825
subfamilyCassinaeLatreille 1825
genusSconsiaGray 1847
specieslaevigata(Guppy 1850)

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.

†Sconsia laevigata Guppy 1850
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available