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Muracypraea henekeni

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea henikeni was named by Sowerby (1850) [Lectotype designated by Pflug 1961.]. Its type specimen is BM(NH) G83940, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was corrected as Cypraea henekeni by Maury (1917) and Anderson (1929); it was recombined as Cypraea (Muracypraea) henekeni by Weisbord (1962); it was recombined as Siphocypraea (Muracypraea) henekeni by Olsson (1964); it was recombined as Muracypraea henekeni by Groves (1997), DeVries et al. (2006) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Cypraea henikeni Sowerby p. 45 figs. pl. 9, fig. 3
1911Cypraea henikeni Brown and Pilsbry p. 357
1917Cypraea henekeni Maury p. 113
1929Cypraea henekeni Anderson p. 139
1939Siphocypraea quagga Schilder p. 25 figs. fig. 28
1962Cypraea (Muracypraea) henekeni Weisbord p. 236
1964Siphocypraea (Muracypraea) henekeni Olsson pp. 176-177 figs. pi. 31, figs. 3-3a
1997Muracypraea henekeni Groves pp. 152 - 153 figs. Plate 1, figures 4, 5, and 6
2006Muracypraea henekeni DeVries et al. p. 103
2010Muracypraea henekeni Landau and Marques da Silva p. 37

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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
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyCypraeinaeRafinesque 1815
genusMuracypraeaWoodring 1957
specieshenekeni()

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.

Muracypraea henekeni Sowerby 1850
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Invalid names: Siphocypraea quagga Schilder 1939 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available