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Towapteria scythica

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae

Taxonomy
Oxytoma scythicum was named by Wirth (1936). It is not extant.

It was misspelled as Towapteria scythicum by Shen et al. (1995); it was recombined as Towapteria scythica by Yang et al. (1986), Broglio Loriga et al. (1986), Pan et al. (2014), Hautmann et al. (2015), Hofmann et al. (2015) and Foster et al. (2019).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Oxytoma scythicum Wirth
1978Towapteria scythicum Xu p. 321 figs. Pl 104, fig 34
1986Towapteria scythica Broglio Loriga et al. figs. Pl 2, fig 18
1986Towapteria scythica Yang et al. figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2,7,15
1995Towapteria scythicum Shen et al. fig. 2.1b,2.21,2.22
2014Towapteria scythica Pan et al. p. 145 figs. 5B-D
2015Towapteria scythica Hautmann et al. p. 886 fig. 9F
2015Towapteria scythica Hofmann et al. fig. 3G
2019Towapteria scythica Foster et al. p. 626 fig. 7M,N

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
RankNameAuthor
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
OstreioniFerussac 1822
OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderOstreida(FĂ«russac 1822)
suborderMalleidinaGray 1854
superfamilyPterioideaGray 1847
familyBakevelliidae
genusTowapteria
speciesscythica(Wirth 1936)

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.

Towapteria scythica Wirth 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available