Purpurcapsula bayeri

Purpurcapsula bayeri
Shell of Purpurcapsula bayeri (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Triviidae
Genus:	Purpurcapsula
Species:	P. bayeri
Binomial name
Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998)
Synonyms [1]
Austrotrivia bayeri(Fehse, 1999) Trivirostra bayeriFehse, 1998 (basionym)

Purpurcapsula bayeri is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Marquesas Islands.

References

1. Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998) . Bouchet, P. (2010). Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555482 on 13 March 2011 .

• Fehse D. (1998) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) I. Die Gatting Trivirostra von Western Samoa. Club Conchylia Informationen 30(4-6): 39-67.
• 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