Pedicularia

Pedicularia
Pedicularia elegantissima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Ovulidae
Subfamily: Pediculariinae
Genus: Pedicularia
Swainson, 1840
Type species
Pedicularia sicula
Swainson, 1840
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Mioseguenzia Nordsieck, 1973
  • Pediculariella Thiele, 1925
  • Pediculariona Iredale, 1935
  • Thyreus Philippi, 1844

Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies.

In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.

These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

Species

Species within the genus Pedicularia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 3 Pedicularia Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
  3. ↑ (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.