Meyer (2003) classified this species as Adusta pulchella; in Meyer (2004) he reported new molecular data that ... [details]
This taxon has been supported by molecular characters. However, it shares a more recent ancestry with Blasicrura ... [details]
Meyer's Cowrie Genomic Database and Meyer (2003) list this taxon as valid, based on mitochondrial DNA sequencing. [details]
Contradusta walkeri (Sowerby I, 1832) is the type species of the genus Contradusta Meyer, 2003. [details]