Pedicularia sicula
| Pedicularia sicula | |
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| Shell of Pedicularia sicula (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Genus: | Pedicularia |
| Species: | P. sicula |
| Binomial name | |
| Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pedicularia sicula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pediculariidae, one of the families of cowry allies.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the East Atlantic, the Azores, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Madeira, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily).[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
- Calcara P. (1842). Nuove ricerche ed osservazioni sopra vari molluschi Siciliani. Nuove specie di Calyptrea.. Il Maurolico, Giornale del Gabinetto Letterario di Messina 2(3)
- Nordsieck, F. (1973). Molluschi abissali dello Jonio. La Conchiglia. 57-58: 4-7
- Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
- Scheltema R. (1971). Larval dispersal as a means of genetic exchange between geographically separated populations of shallow-water benthic marine Gastropods. Biological Bulletin 140: 284-322
External links
[edit]- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp.
- Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle
- Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1
- Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material
- Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114