Ransoniella punctata
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| Species: | N. punctata
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| Notadusta punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Notadusta 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 occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania and off Australia
Synonyms
- Cypraea atomaria Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
- Cypraea punctata Linnaeus, 1771
- Cypraea punctata punctata Linnaeus, 1771
- Evenaria carula Iredale, 1939 (original combination)
- Notadusta punctata punctata (Linnaeus, 1771) · accepted, alternate representation
- Palmadusta punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Palmadusta punctata atomaria (Gmelin, 1791)
- Palmadusta punctata iredalei (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) (Synonym)
- Ransoniella atomaria (Gmelin, 1791)
- Ransoniella bulbosa Dolin, 2007[1]
- Ransoniella carula (Iredale, 1939)
- Ransoniella erminea Dolin, 2007[2]
- Ransoniella fusula Dolin, 2007[3]
- Ransoniella glandina Dolin, 2007[4]
- Ransoniella iredalei (Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
- Ransoniella labiosa Dolin, 2007[5]
- Ransoniella meyeri Dolin, 2007[6]
- Ransoniella oryza Dolin, 2007[7]
- Ransoniella persticta (Iredale, 1939)
- Ransoniella punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Ransoniella radiosa Dolin, 2007[8]
- Ransoniella serrata Dolin, 2007[9]
- Ransoniella uvula Dolin, 2007[10]
- Ransoniella vulgata Dolin, 2007[11]
- Ransoniella zyzypha Dolin, 2007[12]
References
- WoRMS
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp
External links
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- ^ Ransoniella bulbosa Dolin , 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella erminea Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella fusula Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella glandina Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella labiosa Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella meyeri Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella oryza Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella radiosa Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella serrata Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella uvula Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella vulgata Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.
- ^ Ransoniella zyzypha Dolin, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 June 2010.