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)Gastropods.com : Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis; accessed : 20 October 2010 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., 2010Gastropods.com : Purpuradusta gracilis nemethi; accessed : 20 October 2010 Purpuradusta gracilis notata (Gill, 1858) forma : Purpuradusta gracilis notata jamila (f) Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
Description
The length of the shell attains 14.9 mm. 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, South Korea and Tanzania.
References
Notes Burgess, C.M. (1970). The Living Cowries. AS Barnes and Co, Ltd. Cranbury, New Jersey Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213 Knudsen J. (1994).Further observations on the egg capsules and reproduction of some marine prosobranch molluscs from Hong Kong. . In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Third International workshop on the malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The malacofauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 283–306. Van Heesvelde, J., 2010. Range extension of the Lessepsian Cypraeidae Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849) and Erronea caurica (Linnaeus, 1758), with description of a new subspecies of Purpuradusta gracilis. Visaya 3(1): 4-15
External links Gaskoin J.S. (1849 ("1848") ). Description of new species of the genus Cypraea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 16: 90-98.]