Pedicularia | |
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Pedicularia elegantissima | |
Scientific classification | |
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
| |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies. [2]
In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes. [3]
These snails live on and feed on certain corals.
Species within the genus Pedicularia include: [2]
Pedicularia | |
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Pedicularia elegantissima | |
Scientific classification | |
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
| |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies. [2]
In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes. [3]
These snails live on and feed on certain corals.
Species within the genus Pedicularia include: [2]