Ransoniella punctata

Brown-spotted cowry
	Shell of Notadusta punctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Notadusta
Species:	N. punctata
Binomial name
	Notadusta punctata; (Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms
	Cypraea punctata Linnaeus, 1771; Cypraea punctata punctata Linnaeus, 1771; Palmadusta punctata (Linnaeus, 1771); Ransoniella punctata (Linnaeus, 1771);

Notadusta 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

The shell size varies between 7.5 mm and 20 mm. The dorsum surface is usually light white or yellowish, with small brown spots.

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

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