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Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea (Luponia) leptorhyncha was named by McCoy (1877) [Lectotype designated by Darragh 2002.]. Its type specimen is P12133, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is PL3078 - Shore platform at Fossil Beach, 3 km South of Mornington, which is in a Miocene marine claystone/marl in the Fyansford Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Cypraea leptorhyncha by Tate (1890); it was recombined as Rhynchocypraea leptorhyncha by Cossmann (1898) and Lorenz (1989); it was recombined as Gisortia leptorhyncha by Vredenburg (1927); it was recombined as Umbilia (Rhynchocypraea) leptorhyncha by Schilder (1935); it was recombined as Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha by Darragh (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Cypraea (Luponia) leptorhyncha McCoy p. 35 figs. pl. 49 fig. 1, 1a–c
1890Cypraea leptorhyncha Tate p. 208
1898Rhynchocypraea leptorhyncha Cossmann
1927Gisortia leptorhyncha Vredenburg p. 42
1935Umbilia (Rhynchocypraea) leptorhyncha Schilder p. 343 fig. 27
1989Rhynchocypraea leptorhyncha Lorenz p. 7
2002Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha Darragh p. 366 fig. 16A–H

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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
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
tribeCypraeorbini(Schilder 1927)
genusUmbilia
subgenusUmbiliaJousseaume 1884
speciesleptorhyncha()

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
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