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Eupleura plicata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Ranella plicata was named by Reeve (1844) [DISTRIBUTION: Pliocene-Recent; Peru-California.]. It is extant. Its type specimen is UMCZ I.100.275, a shell.

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

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. pterina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1844Ranella plicata Reeve p. 138
2005Eupleura plicata Herbert p. 317
2010Eupleura plicata 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
speciesplicata(Reeve 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 plicata Reeve 1844
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available