Pustularia cicercula

Pustularia cicercula
Pustularia cicercula
Pustularia cicercula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Pustularia
Species: P. cicercula
Binomial name
Pustularia cicercula
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]

Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus, 1758

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

Contents

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognized :[1]

  • Pustularia cicercula avrilae Heiman, 2009
  • Pustularia cicercula lienardi (Jouss.)
  • Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, 2007

Description

Distribution

This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Réunion and Tanzania.

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  • Verdcourt, B. (1959). The cowries of the East African Coast: Supplement II. JEANHS XXIII (100): 130-134

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