Pedicularia pacifica

Pedicularia pacifica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Pediculariidae
Genus: Pedicularia
Species: P. pacifica
Binomial name
Pedicularia pacifica
Pease, 1865
Synonyms

Pedicularia stylasteris Hedley, 1903
Pediculariona stylasteris Iredale, 1935
Pedicularia maoria Powell, 1937

Pedicularia pacifica is a species of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snail, a cowry-like marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pediculariidae, the cowry allies.[1]

These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

References

  1. WoRMS (2009). Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=437176 on 2010-05-24
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