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Pseudotaranis

genus of molluscs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3170588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pseudotaranis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids. This marine genus occurs off California, United States.

Species

Species within the genus Pseudotaranis include:

Pseudotaranis hyperia (Dall, 1919)

Pseudotaranis strongi (Arnold, 1903)

References

External links

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pseudotaranis” as genus of molluscs. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 1903, 2004, 1295—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pseudotaranis, genus and molluscs can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of molluscs. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3170588. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1903, 2004 and 1295.

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Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pseudotaranis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.