Purpuradusta microdon

Purpuradusta microdon is species of tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. This species lives in the Indo-Pacific oceans.^[1]

Purpuradusta microdon
Purpuradusta microdon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Purpuradusta
Species:	P. microdon
Binomial name
Purpuradusta microdon (Gray, 1828).
Synonyms[1]
Cypraea microdon Gray, 1828 (basionym)

The shell of this cowry closely resembles that of Purpuradusta minoridens.

Subspecies

• Purpuradusta microdon microdon (Gray, 1828)
• Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis (Kiener, 1843) ^[2]

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.