Pustularia is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Pustulariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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| Two views of a shell of Pustularia cicercula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Pustularia Swainson, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea cicercula | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Distribution
editThese cowries are found along the coast of East Africa, Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region in general.
Species
editSpecies within the genus Pustularia include:
- Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
- Pustularia chiapponii Lorenz, 1999
- Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pustularia keelingensis Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
- Pustularia jandeprezi Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia jandeprezi)
- † Pustularia korneli Fehse & Vicián, 2021
- † Pustularia lodanensis (F. A. Schilder, 1937)
- Pustularia marerubra Lorenz, 2009
- 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)[2] Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pustularia childreni (Gray, 1825): synonym of Ipsa childreni (Gray, 1825)
- Pustularia mariae Schilder, 1927 accepted as Annepona mariae (Schilder, 1927) (original combination)
- Pustularia maricola C. N. Cate, 1976 accepted as Nesiocypraea lisetae maricola (C. N. Cate, 1976) (original combination)
- † Pustularia pisiformis F. A. Schilder, 1932 accepted as † Ficadusta pisiformis (F. A. Schilder, 1932) (original combination)
- † Pustularia rugifera Schilder, 1927 accepted as † Maestratia rugifera (Schilder, 1927) (original combination)
- Pustularia tricornis (Jousseaume, 1874) accepted as Pustularia cicercula tricornis (Jousseaume, 1874)
- Pustularia tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993: synonym of Pustularia margarita var. tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993 accepted as Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Pustularia wattsi Lorenz, 2000 accepted as Pustularia mauiensis wattsi Lorenz, 2000
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pustularia Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205618 on 2022-03-11
- ^ Burgess, C. M. (1967). "A new Hawaiian Cypraea". Hawaiian Shell News. 15 (10): 1, 2.
- Lorenz F. (2014). Monograph of the genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Harxheim: ConchBooks. 130 pp
- Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
External links
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- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
- E.L. Heiman (2008). "Reflections upon Pustularia mauiensis and related taxa" (PDF). Triton. 17: 29–31.
- E.L. Heiman (2008). "Pustularia chiapponii seems to be a form of P. bistrinotata" (PDF). Triton. 17: 33–35.
- Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23
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