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Purpurcapsula exigua

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Species of gastropod

Purpurcapsula exigua
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Triviidae
Genus: Purpurcapsula
Species: P. exigua
Binomial name
Purpurcapsula exigua
(Gray, 1831)
Synonyms
  • Austrotrivia exigua (Gray, 1831)
  • Trivia exigua (Gray, 1831)
  • Trivirostra exigua (Gray, 1831)

Purpurcapsula exigua is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

Description

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin

References

  1. ^ Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831). WoRMS (2009). Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555480 on 17 December 2010 .
  • - Dautzenberg, Ph.; Bouge, J.-L. (1933). Les mollusques testacés marins des établissements Français de l'Océanie. J. Conchyl. 77(2): 41-108; 145-326; 351-469
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 73
  • Fehse D. (2002) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) V. Kritische Beurteilung der Genera und Beschreibung einer neuen Art der Gattung Semitrivia Cossmann, 1903. Acta Conchyliorum 6: 3-48. page(s): 28
Taxon identifiers
Purpurcapsula exigua
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