Contradusta
Sign in to saveContradusta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
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It is catalogued under the topic Cypraeidae.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyCypraeidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- Family
- Cypraeidae
- Collections
- WAM, NMV, AM, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Unknown Or Invalid, Solomon Islands
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cypraeidae
- Image
- Cypraea bregeriana.jpg
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- taxon name
- Contradusta
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Contradusta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
==Species== Species within the genus Contradusta include: Contradusta bregeriana (Crosse, 1868) Contradusta lapillus Poppe, Tagaro & Groh, 2013 Contradusta walkeri (Sowerby I, 1832) Species brought into synonymy: Contradusta barclayi (Reeve, 1857): synonym of Paradusta barclayi (Reeve, 1857) Contradusta pulchella (Swainson, 1823): synonym of Ficadusta pulchella (Swainson, 1823)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contradusta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.