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Eupleura pectinata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Ranella pectinata was named by Hinds (1844) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene-Recent; Colombia, Panama, Ecuador.]. It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH (unknown number; lost), a shell.

It was recombined as Eupleura pectinata by Herbert (2005) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. pterina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1844Ranella pectinata Hinds p. 13 figs. pl. 4, figs. 17, 18
2005Eupleura pectinata Herbert p. 316
2010Eupleura pectinata Landau and Marques da Silva p. 66

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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
speciespectinata(Hinds 1844)

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 pectinata Hinds 1844
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Diagnosis
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