Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies.[2]
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| Pedicularia elegantissima | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Subfamily: | Pediculariinae |
| Genus: | Pedicularia Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840
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| Synonyms[2] | |
In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.[3]
These snails live on and feed on certain corals.
Species
editSpecies within the genus Pedicularia include:[2]
- Pedicularia californica (Newcomb, 1864) - California pedicularia
- Pedicularia dautzenbergi (Schilder, 1931)
- Pedicularia decurvata Locard, 1897
- Pedicularia decussata (Gould, 1855) - hatched pedicularia
- † Pedicularia deshayesiana G. Seguenza, 1865
- Pedicularia elegantissima Deshayes, 1863
- Pedicularia granulata Neubert, 1998
- Pedicularia japonica Dall, 1871
- Pedicularia morrisoni Lorenz, 2013
- Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865
- Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840
- Pedicularia splendida Lorenz, 2009
- Pedicularia stylasteris Hedley, 1903
- Pedicularia subtilis Schilder, 1931
- Pedicularia vanderlandi Goud & Hoeksema, 2001
- Species brought into synonymy
- Pedicularia albida Dall, 1881: synonym of Pedicularia decussata Gould, 1855
- Pedicularia bonfigliolii Cossignani, 2006: synonym of Pedicularia decussata Gould, 1855
- Pedicularia deshayesiana Seguenza, 1865: synonym of Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840
- Pedicularia ovuliformis Berry, 1946: synonym of Pedicularia californica Newcomb, 1864
- Pedicularia tibia Simone, 2005: synonym of Pedicularia decussata Gould, 1855
References
edit- ^ Swainson, William John (1840). "Chap. VIII: The Phytophagous Gastropods Concluded: The Haliotidae, or Ear-Shells, and the Naticidae, or Nerits.". Treatise on Malacology; or, the natural classification of shells and shell fish. pp. 242, 244, 357.
- ^ a b c Pedicularia Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
- ^ (in French) Dolin L. & Ledon D. (2002). "Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d’Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l’Éocène inférieur de Gan, France)". Geodiversitas 24(2): 329-347.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
- Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
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