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Persicula persicula

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae

Taxonomy
Voluta persicula was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Recent; West Africa.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Persicula.

It was recombined as Persicula persicula by Woodring (1970) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. phrygia

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Voluta persicula Linnaeus
1817Persicula variabilis Schumacher
1970Persicula persicula Woodring p. 332
2010Persicula persicula Landau and Marques da Silva p. 82

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyCystiscidaeStimpson 1865
subfamilyPersiculinaeCoovert and Coovert 1995
genusPersiculaSchumacher 1817
speciespersicula(Linnaeus 1758)

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.

Persicula persicula Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Persicula variabilis Schumacher 1817 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available