Pustularia cicercula

Pustularia cicercula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cypraeidae
Genus: Pustularia
Species:
P. cicercula
Binomial name
Pustularia cicercula
Synonyms
  • Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pustularia (Pustularia) cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)

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:

Description

The length of the shell attains 20.3 mm, lateral diameter is 13.6 mm, and dorsoventral diameter is 11.8 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

  1. 1 2 3 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 .
  2. ↑ Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.