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.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
Distribution These 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 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) 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
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
Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
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 OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan database ZipcodeZoo