Pedicularia sicula

Pedicularia sicula
Shell of Pedicularia sicula (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
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]

Distribution

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

References

1. Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 January 2019.

• Calcara P. (1842). Nuove ricerche ed osservazioni sopra vari molluschi Siciliani. Nuove specie di Calyptrea.. Il Maurolico, Giornale del Gabinetto Letterario di Messina 2(3)
• Nordsieck, F. (1973). Molluschi abissali dello Jonio. La Conchiglia. 57-58: 4-7
• Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
• Scheltema R. (1971). Larval dispersal as a means of genetic exchange between geographically separated populations of shallow-water benthic marine Gastropods. Biological Bulletin 140: 284-322

External links

• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp.
• Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle
• Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1
• Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material
• Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114