Appearance
"Palmadusta asellus" has a shell reaching a length of about 2.8 centimetres. 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.
Naming
Subspecies:⤷ "Palmadusta asellus asellus"
⤷ "Palmadusta asellus bitaeniata"
⤷ "Palmadusta asellus latefasciata" Schilder, 1930
⤷ "Palmadusta asellus vespacea"
Distribution
This species is distributed in the seas along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania.References:
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