Pustularia is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
These sea snails are found along the coast of East Africa, Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region in general.
Species within the genus Pustularia include:
Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
Pustularia bistrinotata bistrinotata Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1937 Twice-triple-spotted cowry
Pustularia bistrinotata keelingensis Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
Pustularia bistrinotata mediocris Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 <:small> Mediocre bistrinotata
Pustularia bistrinotata sublaevis childer, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 Almost smooth bistrinotata
Pustularia bolarioides
Pustularia bronca
Pustularia catinoides
Pustularia catinus
Pustularia chiapponii Lorenz, 1999
Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pustularia cicercula cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758) : Chick-pea cowry
Pustularia cicercula margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)
Pustularia cicercula takahashii Moretzsohn, F., 2007
Pustularia coronaria
Pustularia cupularis
Pustularia gigantea
Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pustularia globulus brevirostris Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938 : Short-beaked Globulus
Pustularia globulus globulus (Linnaeus, 1758): Globular chick-pea cowry
Pustularia globulus sphaeridium Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1938
Pustularia jandeprezi Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia bistrinotata jandeprezi)
Pustularia lecithina
Pustularia macrocalyx
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)
Pustularia mauiensis mauiensis (Burgess, C.M., 1967
Pustularia mauiensis wattsii (Lorenz, F. Jr., 2000)
Pustularia micropus
Pustularia ochracea
Pustularia patavina
Pustularia radula
Pustulariarepanda
Pustularia riparia
Pustularia rosea
Pustularia spiralis
Pustularia sundaica
Pustularia tessellata
Pustularia vesiculosa
Pustularia violaceonigra
Pustularia wattsi Lorenz, 2000
Species brought into synonymy
Pustularia childreni (Gray, 1825): synonym of Ipsa childreni (J. E. Gray, 1825)
Pustularia tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993: synonym of Pustularia margarita var. tuamotensis Lorenz & Huber, 1993 accepted as Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817)
