Pradoxa

Pradoxa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Muricopsinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Pradoxa
Pradoxa confirmata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricopsinae
Genus: Pradoxa
Fernandes & Rolán, 1993
Type species
Paradoxa confirmata F. Fernandes & Rolán, 1990
Synonyms[1]
  • Paradoxa Fernandes & Rolán, 1990 (Junior homonym of Paradoxa Marshall, 1894)
  • Paradoxon Fernandes & Rolán, 1990 (Replacement name for Paradoxa Fernandes & Rolán, 1990 non Marshall, 1894, but itself a junior homonym of Paradoxon Fleutiaux, 1903.)

Species

Species within the genus Pradoxa include:[1]

References
  1. Pradoxa Fernandes & Rolán, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 December 2018.
  2. Pradoxa confirmata (Fernandes & Rolán, 1990). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  3. Pradoxa thomensis (Fernandes & Rolan, 1990). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Fernandes F. & Rolán E. 1990. Nuevo género y nuevas especies de la familia Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) en la isla de São Tomé. Bollettino Malacologico, 25: 9–12.
  • Fernandes F. & Rolán E. (1993) Pradoxa nomen novum para Paradoxon Fernandes & Rolán, 1990. Iberus 11(1): 61.
  • Houart R. & Rolán E. 2012. The genus Pradoxa Fernandes & Rolán, 1993 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in São Tomé, Príncipe and Annobón. Iberus, 30(1): 1-14
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