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Rupicola
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Rupicola was a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The species placed in the genus are endemic to New South Wales in Australia.
Species
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyClausiliidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 343
- With media
- 61
- Family
- Cotingidae
- Collections
- ROM, UCM, CUMV, WFVZ, DMNH, USNM
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, United States, Bolivia
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Taxonomy and systematics
- References
Rupicola was a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The species placed in the genus are endemic to New South Wales in Australia.
In 2015 it was found that genus Epacris is paraphyletic to Rupicola and Budawangia, and the names Rupicola and Budawangia are now regarded as a synonyms of Epacris by the Australian Plant Census and Plants of the World Online.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rupicola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.