Pedicularia sicula

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Pedicularia sicula
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Shell of Pedicularia sicula (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Genus: Pedicularia
Species:
P. sicula
Binomial name
Pedicularia sicula
Swainson, 1840
Synonyms [1]
  • Calyptraea polymorphaCalcara, 1842
  • Mioseguenzia cimbrica recensF. Nordsieck, 1973
  • Mioseguenzia conicaF. Nordsieck, 1973
  • Pedicularia sicula var. sublevigataLocard, 1897
  • Thyreus paradoxus Philippi, 1844

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

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Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the East Atlantic, the Azores, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Madeira, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily). [1]

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