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Trochita occidentalis

Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae

Taxonomy
Trochita occidentalis was named by Gray (1850). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Calyptraea centralis by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Trochita occidentalis Gray p. 84 figs. pl. 130, fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
orderNeotaenioglossaHaller 1882
suborderPtenoglossa(Gray 1853)
superfamilyCalyptraeoideaLamarck 1809
familyCalyptraeidaeLamarck 1809
genusTrochitaSchumacher 1817
speciesoccidentalisGray 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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available