Pustularia mauiensis, commonly known as Maui chickpea cowry or Maui's cowry, is a rare species of small sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
Subspecies Pustularia mauiensis mauiensis (Burgess, 1967) Pustularia mauiensis wattsi Lorenz, 2000- occurs off Hawaii.
Description
The length of the shell attains 11.6 mm. It is a grazer on algae. Distribution Like its subspecies, Pustularia mauinesis occurs off Hawaii.
References
Lorenz, F., 2000. A new subspecies of Pustularia mauiensis (Burgess, 1967). La Conchiglia 296: 19–22 Lorenz F. (2014). Monograph of the genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Harxheim: ConchBooks. 130 pp