Pedicularia
| Pedicularia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea |
| Family: | Pediculariidae |
| Genus: | Pedicularia Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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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. [2]
In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.[3]
These snails live on and feed on certain corals.
Species
Species within the genus Pedicularia include:
- Pedicularia californica (Newcomb, 1864)[4] - California pedicularia
- Pedicularia dautzenbergi (Schilder, 1931)
- Pedicularia decurvata Locard, 1897[4]
- Pedicularia decussata (Gould, 1855)[4] - hatched pedicularia
- Pedicularia elegantissima Deshayes, 1863[4]
- Pedicularia granulata Neubert, 1998[4]
- Pedicularia japonica Dall, 1871
- Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865[4]
- Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840[4]
- Pedicularia splendida Lorenz, 2009[4]
- Pedicularia stylasteris Hedley, 1903
- Pedicularia subtilis Schilder, 1931
- Pedicularia vanderlandi Goud & Hoeksema, 2001[4]
- 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 G. 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
- ↑ Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol.: 242, 244, 357.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ (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.
- ↑ 4.0 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
- 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.