| Palmadusta androyensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Palmadusta |
| Species: | P. androyensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Palmadusta androyensis Blöcher & Lorenz, 1999 |
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Palmadusta androyensis is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
There are three subspecies :
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The adult shell size varies between 14 mm and 19.4 mm.
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and Madagascar.