Notadusta punctata
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| 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 | |
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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
- Notadusta punctata punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Notadusta punctata berinii (Dautzenberg, Ph., 1906)
- Notadusta punctata trizonata (Sowerby, G.B. III, 1870)
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, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania and along Australia