Pustularia (gastropod)

Pustularia is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Pustularia
Two views of a shell of Pustularia cicercula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Cypraeoidea
Family:
Cypraeidae
Genus:
Pustularia

Swainson, 1840
Type species
Cypraea cicercula
Synonyms
  • Globularia Sowerby, 1842
  • Epona Adams & Adams, 1854

Distribution

These sea snails are found along the coast of East Africa, Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region in general.

Species

Species within the genus Pustularia include:

  • Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
    • Pustularia bistrinotata bistrinotata Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1937 Twice-triple-spotted cowry
    • Pustularia bistrinotata keelingensis Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
    • Pustularia bistrinotata mediocris Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Mediocre bistrinotata
    • Pustularia bistrinotata sublaevis childer, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Almost smooth bistrinotata
  • Pustularia chiapponii Lorenz, 1999
  • Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
    • Pustularia cicercula cicercula Linnaeus, 1758) : Chick-pea cowry
    • Pustularia cicercula margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)
    • Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, F., 2007
  • Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
    • Pustularia globulus brevirostris Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 : Short-beaked Globulus
    • Pustularia globulus globulus (Linnaeus, 1758): Globular chick-pea cowry
      • Pustularia globulus sphaeridium Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938
  • Pustularia jandeprezi Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia bistrinotata jandeprezi)
  • Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817) : Pearl cowry
    • Pustularia margarita africana Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
    • Pustularia margarita tuamotensis Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
  • Pustularia mauiensis (Burgess, 1967)[1] Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)
    • Pustularia mauiensis mauiensis (Burgess, C.M., 1967
    • Pustularia mauiensis wattsii (Lorenz, F. Jr., 2000)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Pustularia childreni (Gray, 1825): synonym of Ipsa childreni (Gray, 1825)
  • Pustularia tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993: synonym of Pustularia margarita var. tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993 accepted as Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)

References
  1. Burgess, C. M. (1967). "A new Hawaiian Cypraea". Hawaiian Shell News. 15 (10): 1, 2.


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