Palmadusta clandestina | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cypraeidae |
Genus: | Palmadusta |
Species: | P. clandestina
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Binomial name | |
Palmadusta clandestina (
Linnaeus, 1767)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Palmadusta clandestina is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. [1]
Palmadusta clandestina has the flat-sided egg shape typical of cowries, and is around 26 mm long. [1] It is one of several Cypraeoidea known to use acid for defence, in this case secreting sulphuric acid when disturbed. [2]
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania