Pustularia cicercula
| Pustularia cicercula | |
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| 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] | |
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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]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognized :[1]
- Pustularia cicercula avrilae Heiman, 2009
- Pustularia cicercula lienardi (Jouss.)
- Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, 2007
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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