Pustularia cicercula

Pustularia cicercula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Pustularia
Species:	P. cicercula
Binomial name
	Pustularia cicercula; (Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus, 1758 ; Pustularia (Pustularia) cicercula(Linnaeus, 1758);

Last updated August 18, 2025

Pustularia cicercula is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.^[1]

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognized :^[1]

Pustularia cicercula cicercula(Linnaeus, 1758)
Pustularia cicercula takahashiiMoretzsohn, 2007
Pustularia cicercula tricornis(Jousseaume, 1874)
Pustularia cicercula tuamotensisLorenz, 1999
Pustularia cicercula avrilaeHeiman, 2009: synonym of Pustularia cicercula tuamotensisLorenz, 1999
Pustularia cicercula lienardi(Jousseaume, 1874): synonym of Pustularia cicercula tricornis(Jousseaume, 1874)

Description

The length of the shell attains 20.3 mm, lateral diameter 13.6 mm, dorsoventral diameter 11.8 mm

The shell is highly inflated, its extremities produced and slightly upturned; the granulose dorsal surface bears a shallow central crease.^[2]

Distribution

This species and its subspecies occur in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Réunion and Tanzania.

A single fossil of the type species was collected from the post-Tertiary limestones of the New Hebrides.

References

1 2 3 Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758) . WoRMS (2010). Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216886 on 11 October 2010 .
↑ 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

Jousseaume, F., 1874. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de coquilles appartenant aux genres Murex, Cypraea & Natica. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (3)2: 3-25
Verdcourt, B. (1959). The cowries of the East African Coast: Supplement II. JEANHS XXIII (100): 130–134
Heiman, E.L. & Mienis, H.K., 2008. - Cypraea tricornis Jousseaume, 1874: a study of the type material. Triton 18: 9-10
Lorenz F. (2014). Monograph of the genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Harxheim: ConchBooks. 130 pp
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

External links

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata (10th revised edition), vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae

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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 3 Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758) . WoRMS (2010). Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216886 on 11 October 2010 .

[2] 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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