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Hypergonia prolixa

Gastropoda - Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae

Taxonomy
Murchisonia prolixa was named by White and Whitfield (1862) [Murchisonia prolixa White & Whitfield 1862]. It is not extant.

It was recombined as Hypergonia prolixa by Rollins (1975) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Murchisonia prolixa White and Whitfield
1975Hypergonia prolixa Rollins p. 29
2023Hypergonia prolixa Wagner p. 3905

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
orderCerithimorpha
familyOrthonemidae
genusHypergonia()
speciesprolixa(White and Whitfield 1862)

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.

Hypergonia prolixa White and Whitfield 1862
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Diagnosis
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