Pedicularia decurvata

Pedicularia decurvata
Shell of Pedicularia decurvata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Genus: Pedicularia
Species:
P. decurvata
Binomial name
Pedicularia decurvata
Locard, 1897

Pedicularia decurvata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, one of the families of cowry allies.[1]

Description

Distribution

This bathyal marine species occurs off the Azores.

References

  1. ^ Pedicularia decurvata Locard, 1897. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
  • 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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