Purpuradusta minoridens (Melvill, 1901) is a animal in the Cypraeidae family, order Littorinimorpha, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Purpuradusta minoridens (Melvill, 1901)
Purpuradusta minoridens is a cowrie species with distinctively marked shells, found across Indo-Pacific regions.
This species, Purpuradusta minoridens (Melvill, 1901), has a white shell marked with orange-yellow dots, and a reddish-purple tip. It is distributed across the Philippines, the Southwest Pacific, Japan, Samoa, Southeast Africa, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, East Timor, Australia, and Vanuatu.
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Erronea caurica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, 1758
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Talostolida pellucens (Melvill, 1888)
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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