Purpuradusta microdon

Purpuradusta microdon is species of tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. This species lives in the Indo-Pacific oceans.

The shell of this cowry closely resembles that of Purpuradusta minoridens.


 * Subspecies:
 * Purpuradusta microdon microdon (Gray, 1828)
 * Purpuradusta microdon chrysalis (Kiener, 1843)

Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania.