Pustularia (gastropod)

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 Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
Globularia Sowerby, 1842 Epona Adams & Adams, 1854

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

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
  • Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1937 Twice-triple-spotted cowry
  • Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
  • Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Mediocre bistrinotata
  • childer, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Almost smooth bistrinotata
• Pustularia chiapponii Lorenz, 1999
• Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Linnaeus, 1758) : Chick-pea cowry
  • (Dillwyn, 1817)
  • Moretzsohn, F., 2007
• Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938  : Short-beaked Globulus
  • (Linnaeus, 1758): Globular chick-pea cowry
    • Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938
• Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia bistrinotata jandeprezi)
• (Dillwyn, 1817) : Pearl cowry
  • Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
  • Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
• Pustularia mauiensis (Burgess, 1967)^[1] Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)
  • (Burgess, C.M., 1967
  • (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[]

• OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan database
• ZipcodeZoo
• Burgess, C.M. 1967. A new Hawaiian Cypraea. Nautilus 81(1):6–11
• E.L. Heiman (2008). "REFLECTIONS UPON PUSTULARIA MAUIENSIS AND RELATED TAXA" (PDF). Triton. 17: 1–3.^{[permanent dead link]}
• E.L. Heiman (2008). "PUSTULARIA CHIAPPONII SEEMS TO BE A FORM OF P. BISTRINOTATA" (PDF). Triton. 17: 1–3.^{[permanent dead link]}

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