Subspecies Palmadusta clandestina moniliaris (Lamarck, 1810)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cypraea candida Pease, W.H. 1865. Descriptions of new genera and species of marine shells from the Islands of the Central Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 512-517 [515].
• Palmadusta clandestina extrema Iredale, T. 1939. Australian Cowries. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 9: 297-323 pls, 27-29 [316, pl. 29, figs 7-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60547 dry, Shell Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [34°34'58.8'S,150°52'1.2'E].
  Status unknown, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW.
• Palmadusta clandestina whitleyi Iredale, T. 1939. Australian Cowries. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 9: 297-323 pls, 27-29 [316, pl. 29, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60548 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia [16°36'0'S,145°58'58.8'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lorenz, F. 2017. Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Harxheim : ConchBooks Vol. 1, Biology and systematics. pp. 644.

 

Generic Combinations

• Palmadusta clandestina candida (Pease, 1865). —
  Meyer, C.P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46(1): 127-156 [139]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Indian Ocean to central Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, intertidal, marine, sand.

 

General References

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [61]

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [151]

Meyer, C. 2005. Palmadusta clandestina candida Pease, 1865. Cowrie genetic database project. 2005. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cowries/candida.htm

Meyer, C.P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46(1): 127-156 [139] (included in anlysis)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [188]

 

Common Name References

Lorenz, F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to Worldwide Cowries. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-584. [151] (White Clandestina)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	LITTORINIMORPHA Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975	24-Jul-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Mandy Reid (ABRS)
01-Jun-2021	CYPRAEOIDEA	05-Mar-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		23-Nov-2011	MODIFIED