{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Speciesbox | image = Pustularia cicercula.shell001.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Pustularia (gastropod) | species = cicercula | authority = (Linnaeus, 1758 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Cypraea cicercula'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> * ''Pustularia (Pustularia) cicercula'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> }}
'''''Pustularia cicercula''''' is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|216886|''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 <nowiki>http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216886</nowiki> on 11 October 2010}}</ref>
==Subspecies== The following subspecies are recognized :<ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Pustularia cicercula cicercula'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> *''Pustularia cicercula takahashii'' <small>Moretzsohn, 2007</small> * ''Pustularia cicercula tricornis'' <small>(Jousseaume, 1874)</small> * ''Pustularia cicercula tuamotensis'' <small>Lorenz, 1999</small> *''Pustularia cicercula avrilae'' <small>Heiman, 2009</small>: synonym of ''Pustularia cicercula tuamotensis'' <small>Lorenz, 1999</small> *''Pustularia cicercula lienardi'' <small>(Jousseaume, 1874)</small>: synonym of ''Pustularia cicercula tricornis'' <small>(Jousseaume, 1874)</small>
==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.<ref>[https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp533 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] {{PD-notice}}</ref> {{Expand section|date=March 2022}}
==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== {{Reflist}} * Jousseaume, F., 1874. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de coquilles appartenant aux genres Murex, Cypraea & Natica. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée (3)2: 3-25 * Verdcourt, B. (1959). ''The cowries of the East African Coast: Supplement II''. JEANHS XXIII (100): 130–134 * Heiman, E.L. & Mienis, H.K., 2008. - Cypraea tricornis Jousseaume, 1874: a study of the type material. Triton 18: 9-10 * Lorenz F. (2014). Monograph of the genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Harxheim: ConchBooks. 130 pp * Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata (10th revised edition), vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae]
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Category:Cypraeidae Category:Gastropods described in 1758 Category:Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Cypraeidae-stub}}