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Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracillima

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae

Taxonomy
Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracilis gracillima was named by Murchison (1859). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracillima by Peach et al. (1907); it was recombined as Hormotoma gracillima by Wagner (2023).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Hormotoma kutsingensis, M. dowlingi, M. hibernica, M. scrabiculatus, M. turritelloides

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracilis gracillima Murchison pp. 379 - 380 figs. PI. XIII. figs. 7, 8.
1907Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracillima Peach et al.
2023Hormotoma gracillima Wagner p. 1556

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyMurchisonioidea()
familyHormotomidae
genusMurchisonia()
subgenusHormotoma
speciesgracillima()

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
No diagnoses are available