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Ilyanassa obsoleta

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Taxonomy
Nassa obsoleta was named by Say (1822) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Pliocene-Recent; Massachusetts-Florida. TYPE: Holotype missing (ANSP).]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Buccinum obsoletum by Holmes (1858) and Holmes (1859); it was recombined as Nassa (Ilyanassa) obsoleta by Dall (1889); it was recombined as Nassarius (Ilyanassa) obsoletus by Abbott (1954) and Spencer and Campbell (1987); it was recombined as Nassarius obsoletus by Richards (1962); it was recombined as Ilyanassa obsoleta by Dall (1890), Dall (1892), Clark (1906), Gardner (1943), Gardner (1948) and Hendy et al. (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
I. porcina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1822Nassa obsoleta Say p. 232
1858Buccinum obsoletum Holmes p. 71
1859Buccinum obsoletum Holmes p. 72
1889Nassa (Ilyanassa) obsoleta Dall p. 116 fig. 1:9
1890Ilyanassa obsoleta Dall p. 239
1892Ilyanassa obsoleta Dall p. 239
1906Ilyanassa obsoleta Clark pp. 181-182 fig. 49:3,4
1943Ilyanassa obsoleta Gardner p. 245
1948Ilyanassa obsoleta Gardner p. 245
1954Nassarius (Ilyanassa) obsoletus Abbott p. 240
1962Nassarius obsoletus Richards p. 81
1987Nassarius (Ilyanassa) obsoletus Spencer and Campbell p. 67
2008Ilyanassa obsoleta Hendy et al.

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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
superfamilyBuccinoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyNassariidaeIredale 1916
genusIlyanassaStimpson 1865
speciesobsoleta(Say 1822)

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