Purpurcapsula exigua

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

Purpurcapsula exigua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Velutinoidea
Family:
Triviidae
Subfamily:
Triviinae
Genus:
Purpurcapsula
Species:
P. exigua
Binomial name
Purpurcapsula exigua
(Gray, 1831)
Synonyms[1]
  • Austrotrivia exigua (Gray, 1831)
  • Trivia exigua (Gray, 1831)
  • Trivirostra exigua (Gray, 1831)

Distribution

This species is distributed 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
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