Purpuradusta gracilis

Purpuradusta gracilis
shells from the various headlands
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Purpuradusta
Species:	P. gracilis
Binomial name
Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849)
Synonyms [1]
Cypraea gracilis Gaskoin, 1849 Palmadusta gracilis

Purpuradusta gracilis is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. ^[1]

Subspecies

• Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis (Gaskoin, J.S., 1849) ^[2]
  • forma : Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis japonica (f) Schilder, F.A., 1931 ^[3]
• Purpuradusta gracilis jamila Lorenz, 1998
• Purpuradusta gracilis macula (Angas, G.F., 1867 ^[4]
  • forma : Purpuradusta gracilis macula hilda (f) Iredale, T., 1939 ^[5]
• Purpuradusta gracilis nemethi Van Heesvelde, J., 2010 ^[6]
• Purpuradusta gracilis notata (Gill, 1858) ^[7]
  • forma : Purpuradusta gracilis notata jamila (f) Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993 ^[8]

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 ^[9] and Tanzania.

References

1. Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849) . Gofas, S. (2009). Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139500 on 16 October 2010 .
2. Gastropods.com : Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis; accessed : 20 October 2010
3. "Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis japonica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
4. "Purpuradusta gracilis macula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
5. "Purpuradusta gracilis macula hilda". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
6. Gastropods.com : Purpuradusta gracilis nemethi; accessed : 20 October 2010
7. "Purpuradusta gracilis notata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
8. "Purpuradusta gracilis notata jamila". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
9. Noseworthy, Ron. "A Catalogue of the Mollusks of Jeju Island, South Korea".

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.]