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Loxonema sinuosum

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae

Taxonomy
Terebra sinuosum was named by de Sowerby and Murchison (1839) [Terebra? sinuosum de Sowerby in Murchison 1839]. It is not extant. It is the type species of Loxonema.

It was recombined as Loxonema sinuosa by Chapman (1916); it was recombined as Loxonema sinuosum by Phillips (1841), Donald (1905), Perner (1907), Longstaff (1909), Knight (1941), Peel (1977), Blodgett and Johnson (1992), Heidelberger (2001) and Wagner (2023).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Terebra sinuosum de Sowerby and Murchison
1841Loxonema sinuosum Phillips p. 98
1905Loxonema sinuosum Donald p. 572
1907Loxonema acuminatum Perner pp. 332 - 333 figs. txt. f. 243
1907Loxonema sinuosum Perner p. 332
1909Loxonema sinuosum Longstaff p. 215 figs. pl. 10 f. 1a-b
1916Loxonema sinuosa Chapman p. 96
1941Loxonema sinuosum Knight p. 180 figs. pl. 48 f. 8a-b
1977Loxonema sinuosum Peel p. 37 figs. pl. 4 f. 10
1992Loxonema sinuosum Blodgett and Johnson p. 127
2001Loxonema sinuosum Heidelberger p. 111
2023Loxonema sinuosum Wagner p. 1745

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyLoxonematoidea(Koken 1889)
familyLoxonematidae
genusLoxonema
speciessinuosum()

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.

Loxonema sinuosum de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
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Invalid names: Loxonema acuminatum Perner 1907 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available