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
  • 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) 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

• 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.
• E.L. Heiman (2008). "PUSTULARIA CHIAPPONII SEEMS TO BE A FORM OF P. BISTRINOTATA" (PDF). Triton. 17: 1–3.