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Poirieria (Flexopteron) collata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Murex collatus was named by Guppy (1873). Its type specimen is USNM 115479, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Muricidea collata by Dall (1903); it was recombined as Muricopsis collatus by Woodring (1928); it was recombined as Paziella (Dallimurex) collatus by Woodring (1959); it was recombined as Poirieria (Flexopteron) collata by Vokes (1970).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. primigena, P. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Murex collatus Guppy p. 83 figs. pl. 1, fig. 8
1903Muricidea collata Dall p. 1584
1928Muricopsis collatus Woodring p. 291 figs. pl. 17, figs. 10, 11
1959Paziella (Dallimurex) collatus Woodring p. 217
1970Poirieria (Flexopteron) collata Vokes p. 26

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMuricinaeda Costa 1776
genusPoirieriaJousseaume 1880
subgenusFlexopteron(Shutton 1969)
speciescollata(Guppy 1873)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available