Purpuradusta microdon
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| Purpuradusta microdon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Purpuradusta |
| Species: | P. microdon
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| Binomial name | |
| Purpuradusta microdon (Gray, 1828).
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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
[edit]This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.
References
[edit]- ^ a b WoRMS : Purpuradusta microdon; accessed : 10 May 2012]
- ^ "Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
- Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey