Notadusta punctata

Notadusta punctata
Shell of Notadusta punctata from Mauritius at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Notadusta
Species: N. punctata
Binomial name
Notadusta punctata
(Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms
  • Cypraea punctata Linnaeus, 1771
  • Cypraea punctata punctata Linnaeus, 1771
  • Palmadusta punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)
  • Ransoniella punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)

Ransoniella punctata, common name the brown-spotted cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies

Description

The shell size varies between 7.5 mm and 20 mm. The dorsum surface is usually light white or yellowish, with small brown spots.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, RĂ©union, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania and along Australia

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