| Pustularia bistrinotata | |
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| Pustularia bistrinotata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Pustularia |
| Species: | P. bistrinotata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937 |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cypraea bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937 |
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Pustularia bistrinotata is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
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This small species rarely exceed 20 millimetres (0.79 in) of length. The shape is globular and the basic colour is reddish, with darker small spots.
This species is distributed in the seas along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, the Red Sea, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania.