''Ransoniella punctata'',
common name
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the brown-spotted cowry, is a
species of
sea snail
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, a
cowry, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
[Bouchet, P.; Moretzsohn, F.; Rosenberg, G. (2017). Ransoniella punctata (Linnaeus, 1771). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529722 on 2018-01-01]
Subspecies
*''Ransoniella punctata punctata''
( Linnaeus, 1771)
*''Ransoniella punctata berinii''
( Dautzenberg, 1906)
*''Ransoniella punctata trizonata''
(Sowerby III
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He, too, worked (like his father George Brettingham Sowerby II and his grandfather George Brettingham Sowerby I) on the ...
, 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
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, the
Seychelles,
Somalia and
Tanzania and off
Australia
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(Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
Synonyms
*''Cypraea atomaria''
Gmelin Gmelin may refer to:
* Gmelin's test, a chemical test
* Gmelin database, a German handbook/encyclopedia of inorganic compounds initiated by Leopold Gmelin
People
* Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis ...
, 1791 (original combination)
*''Cypraea punctata''
Linnaeus, 1771
*''Cypraea punctata punctata''
Linnaeus, 1771
*''Evenaria carula''
Iredale, 1939 (original combination)
*''Notadusta punctata''
( Linnaeus, 1771)
*''Notadusta punctata punctata''
( Linnaeus, 1771) · accepted, alternate representation
*''Palmadusta punctata''
( Linnaeus, 1771)
*''Palmadusta punctata atomaria''
(Gmelin Gmelin may refer to:
* Gmelin's test, a chemical test
* Gmelin database, a German handbook/encyclopedia of inorganic compounds initiated by Leopold Gmelin
People
* Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis ...
, 1791)
*''Palmadusta punctata iredalei''
(Schilder & Schilder, 1938) (Synonym)
*''Ransoniella atomaria''
(Gmelin Gmelin may refer to:
* Gmelin's test, a chemical test
* Gmelin database, a German handbook/encyclopedia of inorganic compounds initiated by Leopold Gmelin
People
* Carl Christian Gmelin (1762–1837), German botanist, author of ''Flora Badensis ...
, 1791)
*''Ransoniella bulbosa''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella carula''
( Iredale, 1939)
*''Ransoniella erminea''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella fusula''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella glandina''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella iredalei''
(Schilder & Schilder, 1938)
*''Ransoniella labiosa''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella meyeri''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella oryza''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella persticta''
( Iredale, 1939)
*''Ransoniella punctata''
( Linnaeus, 1771)
*''Ransoniella radiosa''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella serrata''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella uvula''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella vulgata''
Dolin, 2007
*''Ransoniella zyzypha''
Dolin, 2007
References
WoRMSEncyclopedia of Life* Linnaeus, C. 1771. ''Mantissa Plantarum''. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Holmiae Pts 1 & 2 588 pp..
* Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). ''Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection'' Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. . 159 pp
* Wilson, B. 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
* Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. ''A Guide to Worldwide Cowries''. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1–584.
* Meyer, C.P. 2003. ''Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics''. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 79: 401–459
* Meyer, C.P. 2004. ''Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications''. Malacologia 46(1): 127–156
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Cypraeidae
Molluscs described in 1771
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus