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Small-toothed Cowrie
Purpuradusta minoridens
Purpuradusta minoridens, common name : the small-toothed cowry, is a species of tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae.
Subspecies
From the article Purpuradusta minoridens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The shell of this species is white in color with orange-yellow dots, and it has a reddish-purple tip.
Range & habitat
The species is found in the Philippines, South West Pacific; Japan, Samoa and South East Africa, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, East Timor, Australia and Vanuatu.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 686800.