Pedicularia sicula

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| image_caption = Shell of Pedicularia sicula (syntype at MNHN, Paris)

| taxon = Pedicularia sicula

| authority = Swainson, 1840

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  • Calyptraea polymorpha Calcara, 1842
  • Mioseguenzia cimbrica recens F. Nordsieck, 1973
  • Mioseguenzia conica F. Nordsieck, 1973
  • Pedicularia sicula var. sublevigata Locard, 1897
  • Thyreus paradoxus Philippi, 1844

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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.{{WRMS species|225169|Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840||8 January 2019}}

Description

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Distribution

This species occurs in the East Atlantic, the Azores, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Madeira, European waters and the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily).

References

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  • 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