Pedicularia

Pedicularia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Pediculariidae
Genus:	Pedicularia Swainson, 1840^[1]
Species
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Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pediculariidae, the cowry allies.

In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.^[2]

These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

Species

Species within the genus Pedicularia include:

^ Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol.: 242, 244, 357.
^ (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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ WoRMS (2009). Pedicularia Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138304 on 2010-05-24