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Urosoma hirudo
Taxonomy
Uraster hirudo was named by Forbes (1848). It is not extant.
It was recombined as Palaeaster hirudo by Salter (1857) and Wright (1863); it was recombined as Urasterella hirudo by Schuchert (1915); it was recombined as Urosoma hirudo by Spencer (1930), Spencer (1934), Owen (1965) and Lewis et al. (2007); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Urasterella by Blake and Koniecki (2020).
It was recombined as Palaeaster hirudo by Salter (1857) and Wright (1863); it was recombined as Urasterella hirudo by Schuchert (1915); it was recombined as Urosoma hirudo by Spencer (1930), Spencer (1934), Owen (1965) and Lewis et al. (2007); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Urasterella by Blake and Koniecki (2020).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1848 | Uraster hirudo Forbes p. 464 |
| 1849 | Uraster hirudo Forbes p. 3 figs. pl. 1 fig. 4 |
| 1851 | Uraster hirudo McCoy p. 59 |
| 1854 | Uraster hirudo Murchison p. 221 figs. fig. 39.2 |
| 1857 | Palaeaster hirudo Salter p. 326 |
| 1863 | Palaeaster hirudo Wright p. 25 |
| 1914 | Taeniaster meafordensis Foerste p. 326 figs. pl. 4 figs. 5, 7 |
| 1915 | Urasterella hirudo Schuchert p. 188 |
| 1915 | Taeniaster meafordensis Schuchert p. 221 |
| 1930 | Urosoma hirudo Spencer pp. 434-436 figs. text-figs. 278-280, pl. 27 figs. 3-5 |
| 1934 | Urosoma hirudo Spencer figs. text-figs. 231, 232, pl. 29 fig. 1 |
| 1965 | Urosoma hirudo Owen pp. 553-554 |
| 2007 | Urosoma hirudo Lewis et al. pp. 34-35 |
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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.
†Urosoma hirudo Forbes 1848
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Invalid names: Taeniaster meafordensis Foerste 1914 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available