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Caecum glabrum

Gastropoda - Caecidae

Taxonomy

Dentalium glabrum was named by Montagu (1803) [DISTRIBUTION: Pliocene-Recent; Mediterranean, Northern Europe.]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Caecum glabrum by Wood (1848), Marquet (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. achironum, C. antillarum, C. benhami, C. bensoni, C. berberense, C. chilense, C. cinctum, C. cornellum, C. crassum, C. deccusatum, C. fibratum, C. floridanum, C. floridanum, C. glimmerodense, C. ibex, C. insularum, C. korytnicense, C. larieyense, C. mammilatum, C. marense, C. pararegulare, C. parryensis, C. pulchellum, C. solitarium, C. stevensoni, C. strigosum, C. suave, C. tenuicostulatum, C. tortile, C. trachea, C. vertebrale, C. heladum, C. cinctum, C. floridanum, C. marense, C. puntagordanum, C. tortile, C. venezuelanum, C. texanum, C. carpenteri

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1803	Dentalium glabrum Montagu p. 197
1848	Caecum glabrum Wood p. 117
1997	Caecum glabrum Marquet p. 18

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superfamily	Truncatelloidea	Gray 1840
family	Caecidae	Gray 1850
genus	Caecum	Fleming 1813
species	glabrum	(Montagu 1803)

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.

Caecum glabrum Montagu 1803

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

grazerf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 07:54:52

Modified:

2009-09-10 09:54:52

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 20.45000 to 0.77400 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Italy	Caecum glabrum (178108)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Belgium	Caecum glabrum (76983)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.774	United Kingdom (England)	Caecum glabrum (97962 97963 97964 97965 98041)