Purpurcapsula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Purpurcapsula Fehse & Grego, 2009. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555478 on 2022-03-10
Species Species within the genus Purpurcapsula include: Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998) Purpurcapsula corinneae (Shaw, 1909) Purpurcapsula erythrostigma Fehse, 2017 Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831) Purpurcapsula incisura Fehse, 2017 Purpurcapsula laurae Fehse, 2015 Purpurcapsula polynesiae (C. N. Cate, 1979) Purpurcapsula pulcherrima Fehse, 2017 Purpurcapsula rubramaculosa (Fehse & Grego, 2002) Purpurcapsula zzyzyxia (Cate, 1979)
References
Fehse D. & Grego J. (2009) Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). X. The Triviidae from the Red Sea with a description of a new genus Purpurcapsula and a new species in the genus Trivirostra Jousseaume, 1884. Visaya 2(5): 18–79, pls. 1–13. Fehse D., 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Triviidae, 29-F. New Triviidae from the Marquesas. Visaya 5: 113–130, sér. Suppl