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.

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

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.

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