Pustularia (gastropod)
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Two views of a shell of Pustularia cicercula | |
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Genus: | Pustularia Swainson, 1840
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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)
- Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- 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[]
- ^ Burgess, C. M. (1967). "A new Hawaiian Cypraea". Hawaiian Shell News. 15 (10): 1, 2.
- 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]
Categories:
- Cypraeidae
- Cypraeidae stubs