''Proadusta'' is an extinct genus of
sea snail
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, a
cowry
Cowrie or cowry () is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae.
Cowrie shells have held cultural, economic, and ornamental significance in various cultures. The cowrie was the shell most widely used wo ...
, a marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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in the subfamily Zonariinae of the
family
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Cypraeidae
Cypraeidae, common name, commonly named the cowries ( cowry or cowrie), is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small to large sea snails. These are marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, ...
, the cowries.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Proadusta Sacco, 1894 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1246094 on 2022-02-08]
Species
* † ''
Proadusta camiadorum''
Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
* † ''
Proadusta denticulina''
(Sacco, 1894)
* † ''
Proadusta distinguenda''
(Schilder, 1927)
* † ''
Proadusta distorta''
Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
* † ''
Proadusta elliptica''
Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
* † ''
Proadusta gemmosa''
Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
* † ''
Proadusta goedertorum''
Groves & Squires, 1995
* † ''
Proadusta inaequilabiata''
(Sacco, 1894)
* † ''
Proadusta kamai''
(Beets, 1941)
* † ''
Proadusta parvissima''
Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
* † ''
Proadusta rostralina''
Dolin & Lozouet, 2004
* † ''
Proadusta selatjauensis''
(F. A. Schilder, 1932)
* † ''
Proadusta splendens''
(Grateloup, 1827)
* † ''
Proadusta subinflata''
(d'Orbigny, 1852)
* † ''
Proadusta truncata''
(Bronn, 1831)
;Synonyms:
* † ''Proadusta francki''
Gain, Le Renard & Belliard, 2012: synonym of † ''
Romanekia francki''
(Gain, Le Renard & Belliard, 2012) (original combination)
References
* Pacaud J.M. (2018). Les Cypraeoidea (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) du Priabonien (Éocène supérieur) de Dnipro (Oblast de Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). Partie 1 : Cypraeidae. Xenophora Taxonomy. 20: 14–33.
External links
Sacco, F. (1894). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XV. (Cypraeidae, ed Amphiperasidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 74 pp., 3 pl.
Cypraeidae
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