One 1/2" Palmadusta Asellus OUT OF STOCK

A Palmadusta Asellus, also known as the Little Donkey Cowry measuring 1/2 inch.

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Palmadusta asellus

Palmadusta asellus is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Palmadusta asellus has a shell reaching a length of about 1 inch. The shells are white with three large brown transversal bands on the upper surface. The brown mantle shows several whitish spots. In the living cowry it covers almost entirely the shells.

These cowries are distributed in the seas along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania.

Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Caenogastropoda

Order: Littorinimorpha

Family: Cypraeidae

Genus: Palmadusta

Species: Palmadusta asellus

Binomial name: Palmadusta asellus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms: Cypraea asellus

Linnaeus, 1758

(REF: Palmadusta asellus (Linnaeus). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species)(REF:Verdcourt, B. (1954). The cowries of the East African Coast (Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society)(REF: Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey )