''Adinassa'' is a small

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of African

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

s 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 description T ...

(unassigned in a subfamily). The type species was originally named ''Adinopsis skoogi'' in 1923, though the genus name ''

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'' 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 barcai'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Adinassa barcai Horro, Schönherr & Rolán, 2018. Accessed through: Wo ...

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Adinassa parrulai ''Adinassa parrulai'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mo ...

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Adinassa skoogi ''Adinassa'' is a small genus of African sea snails in the family Nassariidae (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 ...

References

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