''Pedicularia'' is a
genus
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of small
predatory
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or
ectoparasitic
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sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
cowry
Cowrie or cowry () is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae.
Cowrie shells have held cultural, economic, and ornamental significance in various cultures. The cowrie was the shell most widely used wo ...
-like
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Ovulidae
Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family (biology), family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the co ...
, the cowry allies.
In ''
Peducularia sicula'', the
protoconch
A protoconch (meaning first or earliest or original shell) is an embryonic or larval shell which occurs in some classes of molluscs, e.g., the initial chamber of an ammonite or the larval shell of a gastropod. In older texts it is also called " ...
protrudes.
[ 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.]
These snails live on and feed on certain corals.
Species
Species within the genus ''Pedicularia'' include:
* ''
Pedicularia californica''
( Newcomb, 1864) - California pedicularia
* ''
Pedicularia dautzenbergi''
( Schilder, 1931)
* ''
Pedicularia decurvata''
Locard, 1897
* ''
Pedicularia decussata''
(Gould
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, 1855) - hatched pedicularia
* † ''
Pedicularia deshayesiana''
G. Seguenza, 1865
* ''
Pedicularia elegantissima''
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* André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes (1777–1846), French ballet dancer and choreographer
* Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne (1768–1846), French governor
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, 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
Gould may refer to:
People
* Gould (name), a surname
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* Gould, Arkansas, a city
* Gould, Colorado, an unincorporated community
* Gould, Ohio, an unincorporated community
* Gould, Oklahoma, a town
* Gould, West Virginia, an ...
, 1855
* ''Pedicularia bonfigliolii''
Cossignani, 2006: synonym of ''Pedicularia decussata''
Gould
Gould may refer to:
People
* Gould (name), a surname
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* Gould, Arkansas, a city
* Gould, Colorado, an unincorporated community
* Gould, Ohio, an unincorporated community
* Gould, Oklahoma, a town
* Gould, West Virginia, an ...
, 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
Gould may refer to:
People
* Gould (name), a surname
Places United States
* Gould, Arkansas, a city
* Gould, Colorado, an unincorporated community
* Gould, Ohio, an unincorporated community
* Gould, Oklahoma, a town
* Gould, West Virginia, an ...
, 1855
References
* 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.
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Pediculariinae
Gastropod genera