African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

AfReMaS taxon details

Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

216888 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216888)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pustularia Swainson, 1840

Original name

Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination

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Subspecies Pustularia globulus brevirostris F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216888 on 2026-09-15

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216888 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-08 05:35:53Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2011-11-10 00:14:28Z

checked

Moretzsohn, Fabio

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original description (of Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Lorenz F. (2014). Monograph of the genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Harxheim: ConchBooks. 130 pp. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.
page(s): 389 [details]

additional source Schilder, F. A.; Schilder, M. (1938-1939). Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 23(3): 109-180 [15 November 1938]; 23(4): 181-252 [15 March 1939].
page(s): 126-127 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) (from synonym Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pustularia globulus)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758)
To Malacopics (Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) Thailand, Phuket Island)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cypraea globulus Linnaeus, 1758)

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758) Thailand, Phuket Island)

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