Purpurcapsula exigua

Purpurcapsula exigua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Velutinoidea
Family: Triviidae
Subfamily: Triviinae
Genus: Purpurcapsula
Species: P. exigua
Binomial name
Purpurcapsula exigua
(Gray, 1831)
Synonyms[1]
  • Austrotrivia exigua (Gray, 1831)
  • Trivia exigua (J. E. Gray, 1831)
  • Trivirostra exigua (Gray, 1831)

Purpurcapsula exigua is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.[1]

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin

References

  1. 1 2 Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831). WoRMS (2009). Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555480 on 17 December 2010.

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