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Yunnania pygmaeus

Gastropoda - Araeonematidae

Taxonomy
Turbo pygmaeus was named by de Koninck (1844). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tournai, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Maurenne Formation of Belgium. It is the type species of Portlockia.

It was recombined as Portlockia pygmaeus by de Koninck (1881); it was recombined as Yunnania pygmaeus by Knight (1941).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Turbo pygmaeus de Konninck p. 452
1844Turbo pygmaeus de Koninck p. 452
1850Turbo subpygmaeus d'Orbigny p. 121
1881Portlockia pygmaeus de Koninck p. 81 figs. pI. 9 f. 49, 50, 54; pl. 10 f. 11-12
1881Portlockia subpygmaeus de Koninck p. 81
1941Yunnania pygmaeus Knight p. 269 figs. pl. 41 f. 5a-d
1969Yunnania subpygmaea Sabattini and Noirat pp. 108 – 109 figs. pl. 2 f. 10-11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassVetigastropoda(Salvini-Plawen 1980)
superfamilyTrochoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyAraeonematidae
genusYunnania
speciespygmaeus()

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.

Yunnania pygmaeus de Koninck 1844
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Invalid names: Yunnania subpygmaeus d'Orbigny 1850 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available