| Purpuradusta fimbriata | |
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| Purpuradusta fimbriata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Purpuradusta |
| Species: | P. fimbriata |
| Binomial name | |
| Purpuradusta fimbriata (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Purpuradusta fimbriata , common name : the fringed cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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The following subspecies are recognized :[1]
The shell size varies between 7 mm and 21 mm
This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along Japan.