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Urosalpinx

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy

Urosalpinx was named by Stimpson (1865) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 122,914]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Muricinae by Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska (1984); to Thaidinae by Ward (1992); to Muricidae by Martin (1904), Durham (1944), Gardner (1947), Gardner (1948), Ward and Blackwelder (1987) and Todd (2001); to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ocenebrinae by Rosenberg (2005).

Species

U. archipatagonica, U. cinerea, U. coombsi, U. cossmanni, U. curtansata, U. haneti (syn. U. rushii), U. hannibali, U. kirbyi, U. perrugata, U. rusticus, U. subangulata (syn. Ocinebra michaeli, Pteropurpura waldorfensis), U. subrusticus

Species lacking formal opinion data

U. merriami, U. tribaka, U. xustris

Synonyms

Zulloia was named by Petuch (1994).

It was synonymized subjectively with Urosalpinx by Hendy et al. (2008).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1865	Urosalpinx Stimpson
1904	Urosalpinx Martin p. 204
1944	Urosalpinx Durham p. 168
1947	Urosalpinx Gardner p. 530
1948	Urosalpinx Gardner p. 223
1984	Urosalpinx Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska p. 109
1987	Urosalpinx Ward and Blackwelder p. 132
1992	Urosalpinx Ward p. 130
1994	Zulloia Petuch
2001	Urosalpinx Todd
2002	Urosalpinx Sepkoski
2005	Urosalpinx Rosenberg

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Ocenebrinae	Cossmann 1903
genus	Urosalpinx	Stimpson 1865

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.

G. Urosalpinx Stimpson 1865

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†Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907

Urosalpinx cinerea Say 1822

†Urosalpinx coombsi Durham 1944

†Urosalpinx cossmanni Ortmann 1900

†Urosalpinx curtansata Tate 1888

Urosalpinx haneti Petit 1856

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Invalid names: Urosalpinx rushii Pilsbry 1897 [synonym]

†Urosalpinx hannibali Dickerson 1915

†Urosalpinx kirbyi Clark 1938