Pustulatirus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamoly Peristerninae of the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.
Species Species within the genus Pustulatirus include: Pustulatirus attenuatus (Reeve, 1847) Pustulatirus biocellatus Lyons & Snyder, 2013 Pustulatirus eppi (Melvill, 1891) Pustulatirus hemphilli (Hertlein & Strong, 1951) Pustulatirus mediamericanus (Hertlein & Strong, 1951) Pustulatirus ogum (Petuch, 1979) Pustulatirus praestantior (Melvill, 1892) Pustulatirus sanguineus (Wood, 1828) Pustulatirus utilaensis Lyons & Snyder, 2013 Pustulatirus virginensis (Abbott, 1958) Pustulatirus watermanorum Lyons & Snyder, 2013 Species brought into synonymy Pustulatirus annulatus (Röding, 1798): synonym of Pustulatirus virginensis (Abbott, 1958)
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Vermeij, G. J. & Snyder, M. A. (2006). Shell characters and taxonomy of Latirus and related fasciolariid groups. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 72(4): 413-424 Lyons, W. G.; Snyder, M. A. (2013). The Genus Pustulatirus Vermeij and Snyder, 2006 (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae: Peristerniinae) in the Western Atlantic, with Descriptions of Three New Species. Zootaxa. 3636(1): 35