Purpuradusta microdon
| Purpuradusta microdon | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Purpuradusta |
| Species: | P. microdon |
| Binomial name | |
| Purpuradusta microdon (J.E. Gray, 1828). | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Purpuradusta microdon is species of tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. This species lives in the Indo-Pacific oceans. [1]
The shell of this cowry closely resembles that of Purpuradusta minoridens.
- Subspecies
- Purpuradusta microdon microdon (Gray, 1828)
- Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis (Kiener, L.C., 1843) [2]
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.
References
- 1 2 WoRMS : Purpuradusta microdon; accessed : 10 May 2012]
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis; accessed : 20 october 2010]
- Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
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