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Pleuroploca gorgasiana

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Taxonomy
Fasciolaria gorgasiana was named by Brown and Pilsbry (1913). Its type specimen is ANSP 3832, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Granolaria gorgasiana by Hendy et al. (2008); it was recombined as Pleuroploca gorgasiana by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Fasciolaria gorgasiana Brown and Pilsbry p. 506 figs. pl. 22, fig. 5
1922Fasciolaria gorgasiana Olsson p. 105
1964Fasciolaria gorgasiana Woodring p. 275
2008Granolaria gorgasiana Hendy et al.
2010Pleuroploca gorgasiana Landau and Marques da Silva p. 78

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyBuccinoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyFasciolariidaeGray 1853
subfamilyFasciolariinaeGray 1853
genusPleuroplocaFischer 1884
speciesgorgasiana()

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.

Pleuroploca gorgasiana Brown and Pilsbry 1913
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available