Belongs within: Bistolidini.
Cribrarula is an Indo-Pacific genus of cowries with a shell marked by conspicuous white spots (Wilson 1993).
Characters (Wilson 1993): Small, oblong-ovate to pyriform; teeth moderate but short; fossula poorly developed; white base, red-brown to yellow-brown top, very conspicuous white spots.
<==Cribrarula Strand 1929 [=Cribaria Jousseaume 1884 (preoc.) nec Schrad. ex Gmel. 1792 (ICBN) nec Pers. 1794 (ICBN)]W93
| i. s.: C. pellisserpentisM03
| C. taitaeM03
|--+--+--C. astaryi Schilder 1971M03
| | `--C. cumingii Sowerby 1832M03
| `--+--C. catholicorum (Schilder & Schilder 1938)M03 [=Cribraria catholicorumBC01]
| `--C. gaskoini Reeve 1846M03
`--+--+--C. comma Perry 1811 [=C. cribraria comma]M03
| `--C. esontropia Duclos 1833 [incl. C. cribellum Gaskoin 1849]M03
`--+--C. fallax (Smith 1881)M03 [=Cypraea fallaxW93; incl. Cr. haddnightae Trenberth 1973BC01]
`--+--*C. cribraria Linnaeus 1758W93, M03 (see below for synonymy)
| |--C. c. cribrariaM03
| |--C. c. exmouthensis Melvill 1888M03 [=Cypraea cribraria exmouthensisW93]
| |--C. ‘exmouthensis’ magnifica Lorenz 2002WBS-S15
| |--C. c. melwardiM03
| |--C. c. northi (Steadman & Cotton 1943) [=Cypraea cribraria northi]W93
| |--C. c. orientalis (Schilder & Schilder 1940) [=Cypraea cribraria orientalis]W93
| |--C. c. rottnestensis Raybaudi 1987M03
| `--C. c. zadela (Iredale 1939) [=Cypraea cribraria zadela]W93
`--C. gaspardi Biraghi & Nicolay 1993 [=C. cribraria gaspardi]M03
*Cribrarula cribraria Linnaeus 1758W93, M03 [=Cypraea cribrariaW93, *Cribaria cribrariaW93, Cy. (Luponia) cribrariaG79; incl. Cy. melwardi Iredale 1930WG71, Cy. cribraria occidentalis Raybaudi 1987 non C. declivis occidentalis Iredale 1935W93]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BC01] Boyko, C. B., & J. R. Cordeiro. 2001. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. V. Mollusca, part 2 (class Gastropoda [exclusive of Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata], with supplements to Gastropoda [Opisthobranchia], and Bivalvia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 262: 1–170.
[G79] Garrett, A. 1879. Annotated catalogue of the species of Cypraeidae collected in the S. Sea islands. Journal of Conchology 2: 105–128.
[M03] Meyer, C. P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 401–459.
[WBS-S15] Willan, R. C., C. Bryce & S. M. Slack-Smith. 2015. Kimberley marine biota. Historical data: molluscs. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 84: 287–343.
[W93] Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells vol. 1. Prosobranch Gastropods. Part One. Odyssey Publishing: Kallaroo (Western Australia).
[WG71] Wilson, B. R., & K. Gillett. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. A. H. & A. W. Reed: Sydney.