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Ocenebra

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Ocenebra was named by Leach in Gray (1847) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 909]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Murex (Ocenebra) by Hörnes and Auinger (1885) and Tate (1888); it was reranked as Murex (Ocinebra) by Clark (1915) and Dickerson (1916); it was corrected as Ocinebra by Bohm (1926) and Nagao (1928); it was misspelled as Ocinebra by Dall (1889), Addicott (1970), Kensley (1972), Kensley and Pether (1986), Harzhauser and Mandic (2001), Harzhauser (2002), Sepkoski (2002), Landau et al. (2007) and Darragh (2017).

It was assigned to Murex by Hörnes and Auinger (1885), Tate (1888), Clark (1915) and Dickerson (1916); to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Muricidae by Dall (1889), Bohm (1926), Nagao (1928), Addicott (1970), Kensley (1972), Kensley and Pether (1986), Harzhauser and Mandic (2001), Harzhauser (2002), Landau et al. (2007) and Darragh (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Ocenebra Leach in Gray
1885Murex (Ocenebra) Hörnes and Auinger p. 219
1888Murex (Ocenebra) Tate p. 104
1889Ocinebra Dall p. 211
1915Murex (Ocinebra) Clark p. 501
1916Murex (Ocinebra) Dickerson p. 495
1926Ocinebra Bohm p. 68
1928Ocinebra Nagao p. 113
1970Ocenebra Addicott p. 78
1972Ocenebra Kensley p. 178
1986Ocenebra Kensley and Pether p. 178
2001Ocenebra Harzhauser and Mandic p. 708
2002Ocenebra Harzhauser p. 95
2002Ocenebra Sepkoski
2007Ocenebra Landau et al. p. 25
2017Ocenebra Darragh p. 77

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
genusOcenebraLeach in Gray 1847

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. Ocenebra Leach in Gray 1847
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Murex (Ocinebra) nashi Dickerson 1916
Murex (Ocinebra) tethys Nomland 1917
Ocenebra ashiyaensis Nagao 1928
Ocenebra bonaccorsii Carrington and Kensley 1969
Ocenebra clarki Addicott 1970
Ocenebra crassilabiatus Hilber 1879
Ocenebra credneri Hõrnes and Auinger 1885
Ocenebra erinaceus Linnaeus 1758
Ocenebra gabbiana Anderson 1905
Ocenebra milicentana Loel and Corey 1932
Ocenebra petrocyon Kensley and Pether 1986
Ocenebra scalaris Brocchi 1814
Ocenebra striata Eichwald 1853
Ocenebra trophonoides Anderson and Martin 1914
Ocenebra wilkesana Anderson 1905
Ocinebra dietrichi Bohm 1926
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available