Pustularia (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Pustularia is a small genus
of medium-sized sea snail
s or cowries, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Cypraeidae
, the cowries.
These sea snails are found along the coast of East Africa
, Australia
, Hawaii
, the Philippines
, the Red Sea
and in the Indo-Pacific
region.
-Pustularia sundaica
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of medium-sized sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s or cowries, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Cypraeidae
Cypraeidae
Cypraeidae, common name the cowries , is a taxonomic family of small to large sea snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies.-Shell description:...
, the cowries.
These sea snails are found along the coast of East Africa
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
, the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, the Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
and in the Indo-Pacific
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two in the general area of Indonesia...
region.
Species
Species within the genus Pustularia include:- Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
- Pustularia bistrinotata bistrinotata Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1937 Twice-triple-spotted cowry
- Pustularia bistrinotata keelingensis Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
- Pustularia bistrinotata mediocris Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 <:small> Mediocre bistrinotata
- Pustularia bistrinotata sublaevis childer, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Almost smooth bistrinotata
- Pustularia bolarioides
- Pustularia bronca
- Pustularia catinoides
- Pustularia catinus
- Pustularia chiapponiiPustularia chiapponiiPustularia chiapponii is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries....
Lorenz, 1999 - Pustularia cicerculaPustularia cicerculaPustularia cicercula is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.-Subspecies:The following subspecies are recognized :* Pustularia cicercula avrilae Heiman, 2009...
(Linnaeus, 1758)- Pustularia cicercula cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758) : Chick-pea cowry
- Pustularia cicercula margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, F., 2007
- Pustularia coronaria
- Pustularia cupularis
- Pustularia gigantea
- Pustularia globulusPustularia globulusPustularia globulus is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.There is one subspecies : Pustularia globulus marerubra Lorenz, 2009-Distribution:...
(Linnaeus, 1758)- Pustularia globulus brevirostris Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 : Short-beaked Globulus
- Pustularia globulus globulus (Linnaeus, 1758): Globular chick-pea cowry
- Pustularia globulus sphaeridium Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938
- Pustularia jandeprezi Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia bistrinotata jandeprezi)
- Pustularia lecithina
- Pustularia macrocalyx
- 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 mauiensisPustularia mauiensisPustularia mauiensis is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.There is one subspecies : Pustularia mauiensis wattsi Lorenz, 2000...
(Burgess, 1967) Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)- Pustularia mauiensis mauiensis (Burgess, C.M., 1967
- Pustularia mauiensis wattsii (Lorenz, F. Jr., 2000)
- Pustularia micropus
- Pustularia ochracea
- Pustularia patavina
- Pustularia radula
- Pustulariarepanda
- Pustularia riparia
- Pustularia rosea
- Pustularia spiralis
-Pustularia sundaica
- Pustularia tessellata
- Pustularia vesiculosa
- Pustularia violaceonigra