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.WoRMS : Purpuradusta microdon; accessed : 10 May 2012]
The shell of this cowry closely resembles that of Purpuradusta minoridens.
Subspecies Purpuradusta microdon microdon (Gray, 1828) Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis (Kiener, 1843)
Distribution This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.
References
Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey
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