Purpuradusta gracilis

Purpuradusta gracilis is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies

 * Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis (Gaskoin, J.S., 1849)
 * forma : Purpuradusta gracilis gracilis japonica (f) Schilder, F.A., 1931
 * Purpuradusta gracilis jamila Lorenz, 1998
 * Purpuradusta gracilis macula (Angas, G.F., 1867
 * forma : Purpuradusta gracilis macula hilda (f) Iredale, T., 1939
 * Purpuradusta gracilis nemethi Van Heesvelde, J., 2010
 * Purpuradusta gracilis notata (Gill, 1858)
 * forma : Purpuradusta gracilis notata jamila (f) Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993

Description
The length of the shell attains 14.9 mm.

Distribution
This species is distributed in the European waters and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Korea and Tanzania.