Ransoniella punctata

Ransoniella punctata
Ransoniella punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Ransoniella
Species: R. punctata
Binomial name
Ransoniella punctata
(Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea punctata Linnaeus, 1771
  • Cypraea punctata punctata Linnaeus, 1771
  • Palmadusta punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)

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.[1]

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Subspecies

  • Ransoniella punctata atomaria (Gmelin, J.F., 1791) [2]
  • Ransoniella punctata berinii (Dautzenberg, Ph., 1906) [3]
  • Ransoniella punctata bulbosa Dolin, L., 2007 [4]
  • Ransoniella punctata iredalei (Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938) [5]
  • Ransoniella punctata meyeri Dolin, L., 2007 [6]
  • Ransoniella punctata persticta (Iredale, T., 1939) [7]
  • Ransoniella punctata radiosa Dolin, L., 2007 [8]
  • Ransoniella punctata trizonata (Sowerby, G.B. III, 1870) [9]

Description

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

References

  1. ^ a b Ransoniella punctata (Linnaeus, 1771).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529722.
  2. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata atomaria; accessed : 22 October 2010
  3. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata berinii; accessed 22 October 2010
  4. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata bulbosa; accessed : 22 October 2010
  5. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata iredalei; accessed : 22 October 2010
  6. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata meyeri; accessed : 22 October 2010
  7. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata persticta; accessed : 22 October 2010
  8. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata radiosa; accessed : 22 October 2010
  9. ^ Gastropods.com : Ransoniella punctata trizonata; accessed : 22 October 2010

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