| Palmadusta contaminata | |
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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. contaminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Palmadusta contaminata (Sowerby, 1832) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, 1832 |
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Palmadusta contaminata is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
There is one subspecies : Palmadusta contaminata distans Schilder
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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Réunion and Tanzania.