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Cymatium

Gastropoda - Ranellidae

Taxonomy
Cymatium was named by Röding (1798) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 125]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Triton (Cymatium) by Mörch (1877); it was reranked as Tritonium (Cymatium) by Gabb (1881).

It was assigned to Triton by Mörch (1877); to Tritonium by Gabb (1881); to Cymatiidae by Oostingh (1935), Turner (1938), Gardner (1947), MacNeil (1960), Addicott (1970), Ladd (1977), Ladd (1982), Squires (1983), Squires (1984) and Frassinetti and Covacevich (1995); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); to Cymatiinae by Wilson (1993) and Beu (2005); and to Ranellidae by Todd (2001) and Beu (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1798Cymatium Röding
1810Lotorium Montfort p. 106
1842Tritocurrus Lesson
1847Luterium Herrmannsen p. 632
1848Nyctilochus Gistel
1877Triton (Cymatium) Mörch p. 31
1881Tritonium (Cymatium) Gabb p. 352
1935Cymatium Oostingh p. 61
1938Cymatium Turner p. 90
1947Cymatium Gardner p. 533
1960Cymatium MacNeil p. 58
1970Cymatium Addicott p. 72
1977Cymatium Ladd p. 33
1982Cymatium Ladd p. 40
1983Cymatium Squires p. 355
1984Cymatium Squires p. 27
1993Cymatium Wilson p. 243
1995Cymatium Frassinetti and Covacevich p. 58
2001Cymatium Todd
2002Cymatium Sepkoski
2005Cymatium Beu p. 72
2010Cymatium Beu

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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)
familyRanellidaeGray 1854
genusCymatiumRöding 1798

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.

G. Cymatium Röding 1798
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Subg. Cymatium (Cymatium) Röding 1798
Subg. Cymatium (Gelagna) Schaufuss 1869
Subg. Cymatium (Gutturnium) Mörch 1853
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Gutturnium muricinum Röding 1798
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Invalid names: Triton tuberosum Lamarck 1822 [synonym], Tritonium nodulus Link 1807 [synonym]
Subg. Cymatium (Lotoria) Emerson 1963
Cymatium cecilianum Dall 1916
Cymatium femorale Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Lotorium lotor Montfort 1810 [synonym], Septa triangularis Perry 1811 [synonym]
Cymatium praefemorale Maury 1917
Cymatium revolutum Finlay 1924
Invalid names: Lotorium Montfort 1810 [synonym], Nyctilochus Gistel 1848 [synonym], Tritocurrus Lesson 1842 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available