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
Species

See text

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:

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


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