Purpuradusta microdon
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Purpuradusta microdon | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Species: | P. microdon
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Purpuradusta microdon (Gray, 1828).
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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
Distribution[]
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.
References[]
- ^ 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
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Categories:
- Cypraeidae
- Gastropods described in 1828
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray