| Palmadusta clandestina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Palmadusta |
| Species: | P. clandestina |
| Binomial name | |
| Palmadusta clandestina (Linnaeus, 1767) | |
| 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
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