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Punctate cowrie
Ransoniella punctata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 529722, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Punctate cowrie
- Scientific
- Ransoniella punctata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cowries
- Family
- Cypraeidae (cowries)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A small cowrie with a cream to white shell scattered with tiny brown dots. It lives under rocks and rubble on shallow reefs.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=4); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=4, 3 observers).
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=529722
- inaturalist.org /taxa/869669
- inaturalist.org /observations/47612447
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.