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Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Murex cornurectus was named by Guppy (1876). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH GG 20254, a shell.

It was recombined as Murex (Phyllonotus) cornurectus by Maury (1917) and Olsson (1922); it was synonymized subjectively with Murex (Chicoreus) brevifrons by Woodring (1959); it was recombined as Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus by Vokes (1965), Vokes (1974) and Vokes (1989); it was recombined as Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Murex cornurectus Guppy p. 521 fig. 28:4
1917Murex (Phyllonotus) cornurectus Maury p. 103
1922Murex (Phyllonotus) cornurectus Olsson p. 131
1965Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus Vokes p. 186
1974Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus Vokes p. 84
1989Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornurectus Vokes p. 31
2010Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 62

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMuricinaeda Costa 1776
genusChicoreusMonfort 1810
subgenusTriplexPerry 1810
speciescornurectus(Guppy 1876)

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