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Poirieria zelandicus

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Murex zelandicus was named by Quoy and Gaimard (1834). It is extant. It is the type species of Poirieria, Poirieria (Poirieria).

It was recombined as Poirieria (Poirieria) zelandica by Vokes (1970); it was recombined as Poirieria zelandicus by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. primigena, P. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1834Murex zelandicus Quoy and Gaimard
1970Poirieria (Poirieria) zelandica Vokes p. 17
2010Poirieria zelandicus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 64

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMuricinaeda Costa 1776
genusPoirieriaJousseaume 1880
specieszelandicus(Quoy and Gaimard 1834)

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.

Poirieria zelandicus Quoy and Gaimard 1834
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Diagnosis
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