Pedicularia

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

Pedicularia
Pedicularia elegantissima
Scientific classification
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]
Mioseguenzia Nordsieck, 1973 Pediculariella Thiele, 1925 Pediculariona Iredale, 1935 Thyreus Philippi, 1844

In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.^[3]

These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

Species

Species within the genus Pedicularia include:^[2]

• Pedicularia californica (Newcomb, 1864) - California pedicularia
• Pedicularia dautzenbergi (Schilder, 1931)
• Pedicularia decurvata Locard, 1897
• Pedicularia decussata (Gould, 1855) - hatched pedicularia
• † Pedicularia deshayesiana G. Seguenza, 1865
• Pedicularia elegantissima Deshayes, 1863
• Pedicularia granulata Neubert, 1998
• Pedicularia japonica Dall, 1871
• Pedicularia morrisoni Lorenz, 2013
• Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865
• Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840
• Pedicularia splendida Lorenz, 2009
• Pedicularia stylasteris Hedley, 1903
• Pedicularia subtilis Schilder, 1931
• Pedicularia vanderlandi Goud & Hoeksema, 2001

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 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