''Pagodula carinatus'' is a
fossil
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species
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of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neoga ...
, the murex snails or rock snails.
The names ''Trophon carinatus'' Jeffreys, 1883 and ''Trophon vaginatus'' auct. (not Cristofori & Jan 1832), established for fossils, have been used during much of the 19th and 20th century to designate the
Recent species now validly known as ''
Pagodula echinata
''Pagodula echinata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Synonyms
* ''Fusus echinatus'' Kiener, 1840
* ''Pagodula carinata'' (Bivona, 1832) sensu Monterosato, 1884 (m ...
'' (Kiener, 1840) of which they have become synonyms.
Description
Distribution
References
Fossil taxa described in 1832
Gastropods described in 1832
Pagodula
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