Pedicularia splendida

Pedicularia splendida
Shell of Pedicularia splendida (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Pedicularia
Species:	P. splendida
Binomial name
Pedicularia splendida Lorenz, 2009 [1]

Pedicularia splendida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, one of the families of cowry allies. ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm.

Distribution

This species was found on the Hyères Seamount, Northeast Atlantic

References

1. Lorenz F., 2009. Two new Pediculariidae from Hyères Seamount, eastern central Atlantic (Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea). Acta Conchyliorum 10: 87–94.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 6 June 2010.
2. Pedicularia splendida Lorenz, 2009 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 January 2019.

• Lorenz F., 2009. Two new Pediculariidae from Hyères Seamount, eastern central Atlantic (Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea). Acta Conchyliorum 10: 87-94.
• Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.