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Purpura (Stramonita) angulata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Purpura angulata was named by Dujardin (1837) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene; France, Pakistan.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Purpura (Stramonita) angulata by Cossmann (1903) and Vredenburg (1925).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. nodosa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Purpura angulata Dujardin p. 297 figs. pl. 19, fig. 4
1903Purpura (Stramonita) angulata Cossmann p. 72
1925Purpura (Stramonita) angulata Vredenburg p. 224

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyRapaninaeGray 1853
genusPurpuraSchumacher 1817
subgenusStramonita
speciesangulata(Dujardin 1837)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available