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
- Ransoniella punctata punctata <small>(Linnaeus, 1771)</small>
- Ransoniella punctata berinii <small>(Dautzenberg, 1906)</small>
- Ransoniella punctata trizonata <small>(Sowerby III, 1870)</small>
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 (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) and Vanuatu.
Synonyms
- Cypraea atomaria <small>Gmelin, 1791</small> (original combination)
- Cypraea punctata <small>Linnaeus, 1771</small>
- Cypraea punctata punctata <small>Linnaeus, 1771</small>
- Evenaria carula <small>Iredale, 1939</small> (original combination)
- Notadusta punctata <small>(Linnaeus, 1771)</small>
- Notadusta punctata punctata <small>(Linnaeus, 1771)</small> ÷ accepted, alternate representation
- Palmadusta punctata <small>(Linnaeus, 1771)</small>
- Palmadusta punctata atomaria <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Palmadusta punctata iredalei <small>(Schilder & Schilder, 1938)</small> (Synonym)
- Ransoniella atomaria <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Ransoniella bulbosa <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella carula <small>(Iredale, 1939)</small>
- Ransoniella erminea <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella fusula <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella glandina <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella iredalei <small>(Schilder & Schilder, 1938)</small>
- Ransoniella labiosa <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella meyeri <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella oryza <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella persticta <small>(Iredale, 1939)</small>
- Ransoniella punctata <small>(Linnaeus, 1771)</small>
- Ransoniella radiosa <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella serrata <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella uvula <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella vulgata <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
- Ransoniella zyzypha <small>Dolin, 2007</small>
References
- WoRMS
- Encyclopedia 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'ÃÂle 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. 1âÂÂ584.
- 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: 401âÂÂ459
- Meyer, C.P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46(1): 127âÂÂ156
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