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Hormotoma multivolvis

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae

Taxonomy
Murchisonia multivolvis was named by Billings (1857). It is not a trace fossil.

It was misspelled as Hormotoma mulivolvis by Sloan and Webers (1987); it was recombined as Hormotoma multivolvis by Twenhofel (1928) and Wagner (2023).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. kutsingensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Murchisonia multivolvis Billings p. 299
1866Murchisonia multivolvis Billings p. 18
1928Hormotoma multivolvis Twenhofel pp. 242 - 243
1987Hormotoma mulivolvis Sloan and Webers
2023Hormotoma multivolvis Wagner p. 4930

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyMurchisonioidea()
familyHormotomidae
genusHormotoma()
speciesmultivolvis()

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.

†Hormotoma multivolvis Billings 1857
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available