Pedicularia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Pediculariidae
- Genus
- Pedicularia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pedicularia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pedicularia
Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies.
In Peducularia sicula, the protoconch protrudes.
These snails live on and feed on certain corals.
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