''Palmulacypraea'' is a

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Cypraeidae Cypraeidae, common name, commonly named the cowries ( cowry or cowrie), is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small to large sea snails. These are marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, ...

, the cowries species = ''Erronea (Gratiadusta) katsuae'' Kuroda, 1960 , display_parents= 3 Rosenberg, G. (2010). Palmulacypraea Meyer, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=530888 on 2011-01-02

Species

Species within the genus ''Austrasiatica'' include: *'' Palmulacypraea boucheti'' (Lorenz, 2002) *'' Palmulacypraea katsuae'' ( Kuroda, 1960) *'' Palmulacypraea musumea'' ( Kuroda and Habe, 1961) *'' Palmulacypraea omii'' (Ikeda, 1998)

References

* Meyer C. 2003. ''Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics''. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 79: 401-459. page(s): 458 Cypraeidae Gastropod genera {{Cypraeidae-stub