Pedicularia elegantissima

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Pedicularia elegantissima
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Shell of Pedicularia elegantissima (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Genus: Pedicularia
Species:
P. elegantissima
Binomial name
Pedicularia elegantissima
Deshayes, 1863

Pedicularia elegantissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, one of the families of cowry allies. [1]

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Réunion.

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