Purpuradusta microdon

Purpuradusta microdon
	Purpuradusta microdon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Purpuradusta
Species:	P. microdon
Binomial name
	Purpuradusta microdon; (Gray, 1828).
Synonyms
	Cypraea microdon Gray, 1828 (basionym);

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.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.

1 2 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