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Purpura singuensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Purpura singuensis was named by Vredenburg (1921) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene-Miocene; Myanmar.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Singu (Singu stage), which is in a Chattian marine horizon in the Singu Formation of Myanmar.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. nodosa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Purpura singuensis Vredenburg p. 341 figs. pl. 22, fig. 6

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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
genusPurpuraBruguière 1789
speciessinguensis

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.

†Purpura singuensis Vredenburg 1921
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available