Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa

Cypraeidae

Palmadusta asellus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Shell: small to moderately small, solid, ovate , ranging from 15-23mm. Spire concealed. 13 to 14 columellar teeth; 16 to 17 labral teeth. Sculpture: smooth, porcelaneous. Exterior colour colour white with 3 chocolate brown to black axial bands across the dorsum, edges tinged with orange; base and margins white.

Specimens

Hutchinson, Australia
Size: mm Collected: 1999
found dead in 10m of water, also found one shell broken, obvoiusly eaten by something

Alexandra Headland, Australia
Size: 20mm Collected: Unknown
Dead collected.

Mudjimba Island, Australia
Size: 22.17mm Collected: 2000
Collected from rocky reef at 15m by diver.

Keppel Island, Australia
Size: 23mm Collected: Unknown
Under rocks on exposed reef. Low tide.

Lamont Reef, Australia
Size: 16mm Collected: 2019
Under rocks on weather edge of reef. At low tide.

Uepi Point, Solomon Islands
Size: 15mm Collected: 2018
Dead in sand on reef slope at about 10m

Uepi Is - Billy's point, Solomon Islands
Size: mm Collected: 2002
found dead in 10m of water,

The Hole, Papua New Guinea
Size: mm Collected: 1984
on coral reef in coral crevise