Pseudozonaria
Pseudozonaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Zonariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
| Pseudozonaria | |
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| A shell of Pseudozonaria annettae from Nicaragua, anterior end towards the right | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Pseudozonaria Schilder, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1810 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Plaziatia Dolin & Lozouet, 2004 | |
Species
Species within the genus Pseudozonaria include:
- Pseudozonaria arabicula (Lamarck, 1811)
- Pseudozonaria annettae Dall, 1909
- Pseudozonaria nigropunctata Gray, 1828[2]
- Pseudozonaria robertsi Hidalgo, 1906
- Synonyms
- Pseudozonaria aequinoctialis (Schilder, 1933): synonym of Pseudozonaria annettae aequinoctialis (Schilder, 1933) (No conchological or molecular differentiation to warrant species recognition)
References
- Pseudozonaria. WoRMS (2010). Pseudozonaria. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391309 on 10 October 2010 .
- Gray, John Edward (1828). "Additions and corrections to a monograph on Cypraea, a genus of testaceous Mollusca". Zoological Journal. 4 (13): 66–88.
- Schilder, M. & Schilder, F. A. (1971) A catalogue of living and fossil cowries. A taxonomy and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Series, 85: 1-246
- Dolin L. & Lozouet P. (2004). Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur de l'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 3. Cypraeidae et Ovulidae. Cossmanniana. Hors-série 4: 1-164.
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