Epideira Hedley, 1918
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903470086 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/181DC756-FFE4-FFB9-FE46-FC068460C5D4 |
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Felipe |
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Epideira Hedley, 1918 |
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Genus Epideira Hedley, 1918 View in CoL
Remarks
Most authors have followed Powell (1964, 1966) in preferring the name Epidirona Iredale, 1931 , to the earlier Epideira Hedley, 1918 , as he regarded the type species of the latter genus as “indeterminate”. However, in the type collection of the BMNH is a specimen from the Gray collection labelled Pleurotoma owenii Reeve, 1843 , which Watson (1886: 312) and Hedley (1922: 230) regarded as a synonym of Gray’s (1826) Clavatula striata . There is even a possibility that it was based on the same specimen. Although C. striata has not subsequently been recognised, it appears to be congeneric with Epidirona hedleyi Iredale, 1931 , the type species of Epidirona .
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