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Pustularia cicercula

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

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognized :

  • Pustularia cicercula cicercula <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
  • Pustularia cicercula takahashii <small>Moretzsohn, 2007</small>
  • Pustularia cicercula tricornis <small>(Jousseaume, 1874)</small>
  • Pustularia cicercula tuamotensis <small>Lorenz, 1999</small>
  • Pustularia cicercula avrilae <small>Heiman, 2009</small>: synonym of Pustularia cicercula tuamotensis <small>Lorenz, 1999</small>
  • Pustularia cicercula lienardi <small>(Jousseaume, 1874)</small>: synonym of Pustularia cicercula tricornis <small>(Jousseaume, 1874)</small>

Description

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

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

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

  • 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.

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