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Pedicularia sicula

Pedicularia sicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Pediculariidae
Subfamily: Pediculariinae
Genus: Pedicularia
Species: P. sicula
Binomial name
Pedicularia sicula
Swainson, 1840
Synonyms
  • Pedicularia deshayesiana G. Seguenza, 1865
  • Thyreus paradoxus Philippi, 1844

Pedicularia sicula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pediculariidae, one of the families of cowry allies.

This species occurs in the East Atlantic, the Azores, Cape Verde, the Canaries, Madeira, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea.



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