''Adinassa'' is a small

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of African sea snails in the

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Nassariidae The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. "Dog whelk" also refers to '' Nucella lapillus''. Shell descripti ...

(unassigned in a subfamily). The type species was originally named ''Adinopsis skoogi'' in 1923, though the genus name '' Adinopsis'' had already been used for a genus of

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s five years earlier. Nearly 100 years later, the genus was renamed ''Adinassa'' and two new species were described.

Species

There are three species within the genus ''Adinassa'': * '' Adinassa barcai'' * '' Adinassa parrulai'' * '' Adinassa skoogi''

References

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