Palmadusta lentiginosa

Palmadusta lentiginosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Palmadusta
Species: P. lentiginosa
Binomial name
Palmadusta lentiginosa
(Gray, 1825)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea lentiginosa (J. E. Gray, 1825)
  • Palmadusta lentiginosa dancalica (Jonklaas and Nicolay, 1977)

Palmadusta lentiginosa is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea.

References

  1. 1 2 Palmadusta lentiginosa (Gray, 1825). Gofas, S. (2009). Palmadusta lentiginosa (Gray, 1825). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181002 on 7 October 2010.

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