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]
Type species
Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Pediculariella Thiele, 1925
  • Thyreus Philippi, 1844

Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pediculariidae, the cowry allies. [2]

In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.[3]

These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

Species

Species within the genus Pedicularia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol.: 242, 244, 357.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Pedicularia Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138304 on 2012-08-12
  3. (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.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 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

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