Pagodula carinata

Pagodula carinatus is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Pagodula carinatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Pagodulinae
Genus:
Pagodula
Species:
P. carinatus
Binomial name
† Pagodula carinatus
(Bivona, 1832)
Synonyms[1]
  • † Trophonopsis carinata (Bivona, 1832)
  • † Trophonopsis carinatus (Bivona, 1832)
  • † Trophonopsis varicosissimus (Michelotti, 1841) (dubious synonym)

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 (Kiener, 1840) of which they have become synonyms.[1]

References
  1. Pagodula carinatus . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 September 2010.


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