Pustularia (gastropod)
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| 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
- 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 <:small> Mediocre bistrinotata
- Pustularia bistrinotata sublaevis childer, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Almost smooth bistrinotata
- Pustularia bolarioides
- Pustularia bronca
- Pustularia catinoides
- Pustularia catinus
- 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 coronaria
- Pustularia cupularis
- Pustularia gigantea
- 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 lecithina
- Pustularia macrocalyx
- 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) Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)
- Pustularia mauiensis mauiensis (Burgess, C.M., 1967
- Pustularia mauiensis wattsii (Lorenz, F. Jr., 2000)
- Pustularia micropus
- Pustularia ochracea
- Pustularia patavina
- Pustularia radula
- Pustulariarepanda
- Pustularia riparia
- Pustularia rosea
- Pustularia spiralis
- Pustularia sundaica
- Pustularia tessellata
- Pustularia vesiculosa
- Pustularia violaceonigra
- Pustularia wattsi Lorenz, 2000
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pustularia childreni (Gray, 1825): synonym of Ipsa childreni (J. E. 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" Check
|url= - E.L. Heiman (2008). – "PUSTULARIA CHIAPPONII SEEMS TO BE A FORM OF P. BISTRINOTATA" Check
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