| Palmulacypraea katsuae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Palmulacypraea |
| Species: | P. katsuae |
| Binomial name | |
| Palmulacypraea katsuae (Kuroda, 1960) |
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Palmulacypraea katsuae, common name : Katsua's Cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
There are two subspecies :
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The shell size varies between 15 mm and 22 mm
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along Japan and the Philippines.