Pedicularia

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Pedicularia
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Pedicularia elegantissima
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Ovulidae
Subfamily: Pediculariinae
Genus: Pedicularia
Swainson, 1840 [1]
Type species
Pedicularia sicula
Swainson, 1840
Species

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Synonyms [2]
  • MioseguenziaNordsieck, 1973
  • Pediculariella Thiele, 1925
  • PedicularionaIredale, 1935
  • Thyreus Philippi, 1844

Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies. [2]

Contents

In Peducularia sicula , the protoconch protrudes. [3]

These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

Species

Species within the genus Pedicularia include: [2]

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Swainson, William John (1840). "Chap. VIII: The Phytophagous Gastropods Concluded: The Haliotidae, or Ear-Shells, and the Naticidae, or Nerits.". Treatise on Malacology; or, the natural classification of shells and shell fish. pp. 242, 244, 357.
  2. 1 2 3 Pedicularia Swainson, 1840 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 January 2019.
  3. (in French) Dolin L. & Ledon D. (2002). "Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d’Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l’Éocène inférieur de Gan, France)". Geodiversitas24(2): 329-347.