Pustularia

Two views of a shell of Pustularia cicercula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Pustularia Swainson, 1840
Type species
Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms^[1]
Cypraea (Pustularia) Swainson, 1840 (superseded combination) Epona Adams & Adams, 1854 Pustularia (Pustularia) Swainson, 1840 Trivia (Epona) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (original rank) Trivia (Pustularia) Swainson, 1840

Pustularia is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pustulariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

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 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)

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

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