Purpuradusta microdon

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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, 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

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  • Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey

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