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Purpuradusta

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Description

Purpuradusta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purpuradusta, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4360948	https://www.gbif.org/species/4360948
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10382	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10382

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeidae : Purpuradusta

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cypraeidae : Purpuradusta

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Cypraeoidea
family	Cypraeidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Erroneinae	Schilder 1927
genus	Purpuradusta	Schilder 1939

Scientific Name

Purpuradusta Schilder, 1939

Name Published In

Arch. Molluskenk., 71

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Purpuradusta	subgenus	belongs to Cypraea	stated without evidence	Okutaini, 2000
Purpuradusta	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Purpuradusta	genus	belongs to Erroneinae	stated with evidence	Meyer, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.78 - 0.13 Ma
Pleistocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cypraeidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

omnivore, grazer (based on Cypraeidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purpuradusta

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cypraea (Purpuradusta) fimbriata species	listed (PBDB)		3	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Purpuradusta barbieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpuradusta fimbriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpuradusta gracilis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Purpuradusta hammondae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpuradusta microdon species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Purpuradusta minoridens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpuradusta oryzaeformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpuradusta raysummersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Purpuradusta serrulifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1939	Purpuradusta Schilder
2000	Cypraea (Purpuradusta) Okutaini p. 233
2002	Purpuradusta Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Purpuradusta Meyer

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Okutaini T. (2000) , Marine mollusks of Japan, 1-1173

Meyer C. P. (2003) Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79 3, 401-459 doi:10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00197.x

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Bouchet et al., 2001 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Arch. Molluskenk., 71 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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