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Prunum coniforme

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

Taxonomy
Marginella coniformis was named by Sowerby (1850) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Caribbean.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Marginella (Leptegouana) coniformis by Woodring (1928); it was recombined as Prunum coniforme by Nehm (2001) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Marginella coniformis Sowerby p. 44
1866Marginella coniformis Guppy p. 288
1873Marginella coniformis Gabb p. 221
1876Marginella coniformis Guppy p. 528
1896Marginella coniformis Guppy and Dall pp. 309-310
1903Marginella coniformis Dall p. 1583
1911Marginella coniformis Brown and Pilsbry p. 348
1917Marginella coniformis Maury p. 234
1920Marginella coniformis Maury pp. 64-65
1922Marginella coniformis Pilsbry pp. 337-338
1928Marginella (Leptegouana) coniformis Woodring p. 238
1929Marginella coniformis Anderson p. 129
2001Prunum coniforme Nehm p. 34
2010Prunum coniforme Landau and Marques da Silva p. 88

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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
familyMarginellidaeFleming 1828
subfamilyMarginellinaeFleming 1828
genusPrunumSwainson 1840
speciesconiforme(Sowerby 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.

Prunum coniforme Sowerby 1850
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available