Pustularia (gastropod)

Pustularia  is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pustulariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Distribution
These cowries are found along the coast of East Africa, Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region in general.

Species
Species within the genus Pustularia include:
 * Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
 * Pustularia chiapponii Lorenz, 1999
 * Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Pustularia keelingensis Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
 * Pustularia jandeprezi Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia jandeprezi)
 * † Pustularia korneli Fehse & Vicián, 2021
 * † Pustularia lodanensis (F. A. Schilder, 1937)
 * Pustularia marerubra Lorenz, 2009
 * Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817) : Pearl cowry
 * Pustularia margarita africana Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
 * Pustularia margarita tuamotensis Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
 * Pustularia mauiensis (Burgess, 1967) Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)


 * Species brought into synonymy:
 * Pustularia childreni (Gray, 1825) : synonym of Ipsa childreni (Gray, 1825)
 * Pustularia mariae Schilder, 1927 accepted as Annepona mariae (Schilder, 1927) (original combination)
 * Pustularia maricola C. N. Cate, 1976 accepted as Nesiocypraea lisetae maricola (C. N. Cate, 1976) (original combination)
 * † Pustularia pisiformis F. A. Schilder, 1932 accepted as † Ficadusta pisiformis (F. A. Schilder, 1932) (original combination)
 * † Pustularia rugifera Schilder, 1927 accepted as † Maestratia rugifera (Schilder, 1927) (original combination)
 * Pustularia tricornis (Jousseaume, 1874) accepted as Pustularia cicercula tricornis (Jousseaume, 1874)
 * Pustularia tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993 : synonym of Pustularia margarita var. tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993 accepted as Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)
 * Pustularia wattsi Lorenz, 2000 accepted as Pustularia mauiensis wattsi Lorenz, 2000