Pustularia cicercula

Pustularia cicercula is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognized :
 * Pustularia cicercula cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, 2007
 * Pustularia cicercula tricornis (Jousseaume, 1874)
 * Pustularia cicercula tuamotensis Lorenz, 1999
 * Pustularia cicercula avrilae Heiman, 2009 : synonym of Pustularia cicercula tuamotensis Lorenz, 1999
 * Pustularia cicercula lienardi (Jousseaume, 1874) : synonym of Pustularia cicercula tricornis (Jousseaume, 1874)

Description
The length of the shell attains 20.3 mm, lateral diameter 13.6 mm, dorsoventral diameter 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.