Purpurcapsula
Genus of gastropods
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Purpurcapsula is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.[1]
| Purpurcapsula | |
|---|---|
| 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)