Purpuradusta microdon

Purpuradusta microdon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Purpuradusta
Species: P. microdon
Binomial name
Purpuradusta microdon
(J.E. Gray, 1828).
Synonyms[1]
  • Cypraea microdon J. E. Gray, 1828 (basionym)

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

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. 1 2 WoRMS : Purpuradusta microdon; accessed : 10 May 2012]
  2. Gastropods.com : Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis; accessed : 20 october 2010]

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