Pedicularia
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| 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 | |
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| 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.
