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Purpuradusta gracilis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Cypraeoidea

Genus
  
Purpuradusta

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Cypraeidae

Scientific name
  
Purpuradusta gracilis

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Palmadusta, Purpuradusta fimbriata, Palmadusta clandestina, Erronea, Palmadusta ziczac

Purpuradusta gracilis is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Subspecies

  • Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis (Gaskoin, J.S., 1849)
  • forma : Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis japonica (f) Schilder, F.A., 1931
  • Purpuradusta gracilis jamila Lorenz, 1998
  • Purpuradusta gracilis macula (Angas, G.F., 1867
  • forma : Purpuradusta gracilis macula hilda (f) Iredale, T., 1939
  • Purpuradusta gracilis nemethi Van Heesvelde, J., 2010
  • Purpuradusta gracilis notata (Gill, 1858)
  • forma : Purpuradusta gracilis notata jamila (f) Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993

    • Distribution

    This species is distributed in the European waters and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.

    References

    Purpuradusta gracilis Wikipedia
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