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Monday, 21 September 2015

Purpuradusta gracilis (Gaskoin, 1849) - Cyprus

 Family Cypraeidae,

A lessepsian migrant

Purpuradusta gracilis is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. 
Lessepsian migration (also called Erythrean invasion) is the ongoing migration of marine species across the Suez Canal, usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, more rarely in the opposite direction. It is named after Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat in charge of the canal's construction.
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Photos by George Konstantinou

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