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Ranella tubercularis

Gastropoda - Cymatiidae

Taxonomy
Ranella tuberculata was named by Risso (1826) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene-Recent; Indian Ocean.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Gyrineum tuberculatum by Mukerjee (1939); it was corrected as Ranella tubercularis by Vredenburg (1921), Vredenburg (1925) and Harzhauser et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1826Ranella tuberculata Risso p. 203
1921Ranella tubercularis Vredenburg p. 270
1925Ranella tubercularis Vredenburg p. 251
1939Gyrineum tuberculatum Mukerjee p. 53
2009Ranella tubercularis Harzhauser et al. p. 360

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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)
familyCymatiidaeIredale 1913
genusRanellaLamarck 1816
speciestubercularis(Risso 1826)

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.

†Ranella tubercularis Risso 1826
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Diagnosis
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