Ransoniella punctata explained

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]

Subspecies

• Ransoniella punctata punctata (Linnaeus, 1771)
• Ransoniella punctata berinii (Dautzenberg, 1906)
• Ransoniella punctata trizonata (Sowerby 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 (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) and Vanuatu.^[2]

Synonyms

• Cypraea atomaria Gmelin, 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, 1791)
• Palmadusta punctata iredalei (Schilder & Schilder, 1938) (Synonym)
• Ransoniella atomaria (Gmelin, 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

• 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'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

External links

• • • Meyer, C. 2005. Notadusta punctata punctata Linnaeus, 1771. Cowrie Genetic Database Project. 2005.

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Web site: Deatils of South East Queensland Shells . 2024-05-30 . www.seqshells.com.