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Pusula pediculus

Gastropoda - Triviidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea pediculus was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; Western Atlantic.]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Trivia pedicula by Woodring et al. (1924); it was recombined as Trivia pediculus by Weisbord (1962); it was recombined as Niveria pediculus by Cernohorsky (1971); it was recombined as Pusula pediculus by Hendy et al. (2008) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Cypraea pediculus Linnaeus p. 724
1798Cypraea oniscus Röding p. 24
1817Cypraea sulcata Dillwyn p. 466
1910Trivia permagna Johnson
1924Trivia pedicula Woodring and et al.
1932Trivia incerta Tucker and Wilson pp. 12 - 13 figs. PI. 2, figs. 9-10
1962Trivia pediculus Weisbord p. 207
1971Niveria pediculus Cernohorsky p. 116
1994Niveria permagna Petuch
1994Niveria permagna bermontiana Petuch p. 264 figs. pl. 26, fig. E
2007Trivia (Niveria) bermontiana Petuch and Roberts
2008Pusula bermontiana Hendy et al.
2008Pusula pediculus Hendy et al.
2010Pusula pediculus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 41

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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
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTriviidaeTroschel 1863
subfamilyTriviinaeTroschel 1863
genusPusulaJousseaume 1884
speciespediculus(Linnaeus 1758)

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.

Pusula pediculus Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Cypraea oniscus Röding 1798 [synonym], Cypraea sulcata Dillwyn 1817 [synonym], Niveria permagna Johnson 1910 [synonym], Pusula bermontiana Petuch 1994 [synonym], Pusula incerta Tucker and Wilson 1932 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:02:03
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:02:03
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Jamaica Trivia pediculus (58522 69089 69093)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Venezuela Niveria pediculus (79710)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781USA (Florida) Trivia incerta (79804)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene3.6 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Trivia permagna (79847)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Panama Trivia pediculus (80304)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (South Carolina) Cypraea pediculus (92407)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) Trivia pediculus (61309 79331)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Venezuela (Sucre) Trivia pediculus (41556)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (North Carolina) Trivia pediculus (59316)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Haiti Trivia pedicula (60880)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774USA (Florida) Trivia pediculus (41705)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (Florida) Trivia bermontiana (79747) Trivia pediculus (61310)