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Nassarius (Uzita) cercadensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Taxonomy
Alectrion cercadensis was named by Maury (1917) [DISTRIBUTION: Middle Miocene-Early Pliocene; Dominican Republic, Jamaica.]. Its type specimen is Holotype (no number), a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Nassarius (Uzita) cercadensis by Woodring (1928) and Woodring (1964); it was recombined as Nassarius cercadensis by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Alectrion cercadensis Maury p. 90 figs. pl. 15, figs. 19-20
1928Nassarius (Uzita) cercadensis Woodring p. 266
1964Nassarius (Uzita) cercadensis Woodring p. 271
2010Nassarius cercadensis Landau and Marques da Silva p. 74

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyBuccinoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyNassariidaeIredale 1916
subfamilyNassariinaeIredale 1916
genusNassariusDuméril 1806
subgenusUzita(Adams and Adams 1853)
speciescercadensis()

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
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