Proxiuber

Taxobox
name = "Proxiuber"
fossil_range = Eocene-Paleocene to Recent


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Naticoidea
familia = Naticidae
genus = "Proxiuber"
genus_authority = Powell, 1933
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Proxiuber" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae known as moon shells.

The shells are small, solid, with an open umbilicus. The operculum is shelly and smooth with two weak marginal grooves. The radula has a tricuspid central tooth.

pecies within the genus "Proxiuber"

* "Proxiuber australe" (Hutton, 1878)
* "Proxiuber hulmei" Powell, 1954

References

* Powell A. W. B. (1979), "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1