| Pustularia globulus | |
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| Pustularia globulus globulus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Cypraeidae |
| Genus: | Pustularia |
| Species: | P. globulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Pustularia globulus is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[1]
There is one subspecies : Pustularia globulus marerubra Lorenz, 2009
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This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin , Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, and Tanzania.