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Eupleura nitida

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Ranella nitida was named by Broderip (1833) [DISTRIBUTION: Pliocene-Recent; Venezuela-Ecuador. COMMENTS: Type specimen and dimensions bsed on syntype 1/3]. It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 1966648/1, a shell.

It was recombined as Eupleura nitida by Herbert (2005).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. pterina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Ranella nitida Broderip p. 179
2005Eupleura nitida Herbert p. 308

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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
subfamilyOcenebrinaeCossmann 1903
genusEupleuraAdams and Adams 1853
speciesnitida(Broderip 1833)

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.

Eupleura nitida Broderip 1833
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available