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Malea camura

Gastropoda - Tonnidae

Taxonomy
Malea camura was named by Guppy (1866) [DISTRIBUTION: Middle Miocene-Pliocene; circum Caribbean, Peru.]. Its type specimen is BMNH 64076, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Malea camura Guppy p. 287 figs. Pl. 17, fig. 9
1911Malea camura Brown and Pilsbry p. 357
1917Malea camura Maury p. 111
1919Malea camura Cooke p. 113
1928Malea camura Woodring p. 311
1959Malea camura Woodring p. 208
2010Malea camura Beu p. 235

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyTonnoidea(Suter 1913)
familyTonnidaeSuter 1913
genusMaleaValenciennes 1833
speciescamuraGuppy 1866

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.

†Malea camura Guppy 1866
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Diagnosis
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