Purpurcapsula
Purpurcapsula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias. [1]
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| Purpurcapsula bayeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Triviidae |
| Genus: | Purpurcapsula Fehse & Grego, 2009 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea fimbriata Gmelin, 1791 | |
Species
Species within the genus Purpurcapsula include:
- Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998)
- Purpurcapsula corinneae (Shaw, 1909)
- Purpurcapsula erythrostigma Fehse, 2017
- Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831)[2]
- Purpurcapsula incisura Fehse, 2017
- Purpurcapsula laurae Fehse, 2015
- Purpurcapsula polynesiae (C. N. Cate, 1979)
- Purpurcapsula pulcherrima Fehse, 2017
- Purpurcapsula rubramaculosa (Fehse & Grego, 2002)
- Purpurcapsula zzyzyxia (Cate, 1979)
References
- MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Purpurcapsula Fehse & Grego, 2009. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555478 on 2022-03-10
- Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831). WoRMS (2009). Purpurcapsula exigua (Gray, 1831). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Speciesathttp://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555480 on 17 December 2010 .
- Fehse D. & Grego J. (2009) Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). X. The Triviidae from the Red Sea with a description of a new genus Purpurcapsula and a new species in the genus Trivirostra Jousseaume, 1884. Visaya 2(5): 18-79, pls. 1-13.
- Fehse D. , 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Triviidae, 29-F. New Triviidae from the Marquesas. Visaya 5: 113-130, sér. Suppl
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