Purpurcapsula bayeri is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.[1]
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| Shell of Purpurcapsula bayeri (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Triviidae |
| Genus: | Purpurcapsula |
| Species: | P. bayeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998)
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Marquesas Islands.
References
edit- ^ a b Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998). Bouchet, P. (2010). Purpurcapsula bayeri (Fehse, 1998). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555482 on 13 March 2011 .
- Fehse D. (1998) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) I. Die Gatting Trivirostra von Western Samoa. Club Conchylia Informationen 30(4-6): 39-67.
- Fehse D. & Grego J. (2009) Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). X. The Triviidae from the Red Sea with a description of a new genus Purpurcapsula and a new species in the genus Trivirostra Jousseaume, 1884. Visaya 2(5): 18-79, pls. 1-13.
- Fehse D. , 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Triviidae, 29-F. New Triviidae from the Marquesas. Visaya 5: 113-130, sér. Suppl
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