Palmadusta asellus

Palmadusta asellus
Palmadusta asellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Palmadusta
Species: P. asellus
Binomial name
Palmadusta asellus
(Linnaeus)
Synonyms[1]

Cypraea asellus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)

Palmadusta asellus is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]

There is one subspecies : Palmadusta asellus asellus (Linnaeus)

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Palmadusta asellus

Description

Palmadusta asellus, drawing in the Index Testarum Conchyliorum (1742) of Niccolò Gualtieri

Distribution

This species is distributed in the seas along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania.

References

  1. ^ a b Palmadusta asellus (Linnaeus).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216882.
  • Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 22(4) 96: 129-144, 17 pls

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