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Claraia aurita

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae

Taxonomy
Posidonomya aurita was named by Hauer (1850).

It was synonymized subjectively with Avicula clarai by Lepsius (1878); it was recombined as Pseudomonotis (Claraia) aurita by Bittner (1901) and Ogilvie Gordon (1927); it was recombined as Pseudomonotis aurita by Frech (1912); it was recombined as Rugiclaraia aurita by Waterhouse (2000); it was recombined as Claraia aurita by Chen et al. (1974), Chen (1982), Yang et al. (1986), Gavrilova (1998), Hofmann et al. (2013) and Hofmann et al. (2015).

Subspecies

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Posidonomya aurita Hauer p. 12 figs. Pl 3, figs 5,7
1865Pseudomonotis ovata Schauroth
1901Pseudomonotis (Claraia) aurita Bittner
1912Pseudomonotis aurita Frech
1927Pseudomonotis (Claraia) aurita Ogilvie Gordon
1974Claraia aurita Chen et al. p. 328 figs. Pl 174, figs 17, 18, 21, 24
1982Claraia aurita Chen p. 216 figs. Pl 2, figs 1,2,5,6
1986Claraia aurita Yang et al. figs. Pl 1, fig 16; pl 2, figs 3,4,6
1998Claraia aurita Gavrilova p. 30 figs. Pl, figs 1-4
2000Rugiclaraia aurita Waterhouse
2013Claraia aurita Hofmann et al. p. 865 figs. 8.8, 8.9
2015Claraia aurita Hofmann et al. figs. 3H-L

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
RankNameAuthor
OstreioniFerussac 1822
OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderPectinida(Gray 1854)
suborderAnomiidinaGray 1854
AviculopectinoideiStarobogatov 1992
superfamilyPterinopectinoideaNewell 1938
familyClaraiidaeGavrilova 1996
subfamilyClaraiinaeGavrilova 1996
tribeClaraiiniGavrilova 1996
genusClaraiaBittner 1901
speciesaurita(Hauer 1850)

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.

Claraia aurita Hauer 1850
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Claraia aurita haueri Tommasi 1895
Invalid names: Pseudomonotis ovata Schauroth 1865 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available