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Harpa americana

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Harpidae

Taxonomy
Harpa americana was named by Pilsbry (1922) [TYPE LOCALITY: Dominican Republic, unknown age. TYPE REPOSITORY: ANSP, Philadelphia.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Quebrada Camarones [Esmeraldas Fm], which is in a Pliocene marine sandstone/sandstone in the Esmeraldas Formation of Ecuador.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. armouret, H. crescentensis, H. minor, H. myria, H. vicksburgiana

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Harpa americana Pilsbry p. 337 figs. Pl. 23: 13
1973Harpa americana Rehder p. 257
1981Harpa americana Pitt p. 155
1982Harpa americana Gibson-Smith and Gibson-Smith p. 57
1984Harpa americana Vokes p. 56
1998Harpa americana Vokes p. 14
2010Harpa americana Landau and Marques da Silva p. 81

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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
familyHarpidaeBronn 1849
subfamilyHarpinaeBronn 1849
genusHarpaRöding 1798
speciesamericanaPilsbry 1922

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.

†Harpa americana Pilsbry 1922
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Diagnosis
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