Purpuradusta

Purpuradusta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Erroneinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Purpuradusta
Purpuradusta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Purpuradusta Schilder, 1939
Type species
Cypraea fimbriata Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[1]
Cupinota Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted (nomen nudum) Cypraea (Purpuradusta) Schilder, 1939 · unaccepted Opponaria Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted (nomen nudum) Palmadusta (Purpuradusta) Schilder, 1939 · unaccepted

Species

Species within the genus Purpuradusta include:^[1]

• Purpuradusta barbieri (Raybaudi Massilia, L., 1986) ^[2]
• Purpuradusta fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791)
• Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849)^[3]
• Purpuradusta hammondae
  • Purpuradusta hammondae hammondae (Iredale, 1939) ^[4]
  • Purpuradusta hammondae raysummersi Schilder, 1960 ^[5]
  • Purpuradusta hammondae dampierensis Schilder, M. & W.O. Cernohorsky, 1965 ^[6]
• Purpuradusta lacrimalis Monterosato ^[7]
• Purpuradusta microdon (Gray, 1828)
• Purpuradusta minoridens (Melvill, 1901) ^[8]
• Purpuradusta oryzaeformis Lorenz & Sterba, 1999^[9] the Rice-grain cowry
• Purpuradusta quisquiliara (Watson, 1886) ^[10]
• Purpuradusta serrulifera (Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938);^[11] Synonyms:
• Purpuradusta durbanensis (Schilder & Schilder, 1938): synonym of Purpuradusta fimbriata fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791)

Purpuradusta