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Poirieria subcristata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Murex subcristatus was named by d'Orbigny (1850) [DISTRIBUTION: Middle Eocene; Europe.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Crassimurex subcristatus by Merle (1990); it was recombined as Poirieria subcristata by Vokes (1971), Jeffery and Tracey (1997) and Merle and Pacaud (2002).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. primigena, P. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Murex subcristatus d'Orbigny
1971Poirieria subcristata Vokes p. 102
1990Crassimurex subcristatus Merle p. 153
1997Poirieria subcristata Jeffery and Tracey p. 95 figs. Pl 10, fig 2
2002Poirieria subcristata Merle and Pacaud p. 22

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMuricinaeda Costa 1776
genusPoirieriaJousseaume 1880
speciessubcristata(d'Orbigny 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.

†Poirieria subcristata d'Orbigny 1850
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available