Pedicularia splendida | |
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Shell of Pedicularia splendida (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
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]
The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm.
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This species was found on the Hyères Seamount, Northeast Atlantic
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