Pediculariinae
Pedicularia elegantissima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Ovulidae
Subfamily: Pediculariinae
Gray, 1853
Genera

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Diversity
20 species

Pediculariinae is a subfamily of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae and the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies.[1] As of 2009, it comprises 48 described species of which 20 are regarded as valid by most scientists.

Taxonomy

Simone (2004)[2] placed some genera in the family Pediculariidae which were previously in the family Ovulidae. Comparison of the shell, radula and morphology suggested a closer phylogenetic relationship to the Pediculariidae than to the Lamellariidae, the Eratoidae/Triviidae, or the Ovulidae.[2] However, both the validity of the family Pediculariidae, and its proper position within the superfamily Cypraeoidea, remain controversial.[2] As of 2019, the World Register of Marine Species considers it a subfamily of the family Ovulidae.[1]

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the subfamily Pediculariinae was included within the family Ovulidae.

2007 taxonomy

Fehse (2007)[3] raised the subfamily Pediculariinae to the level of family as Pediculariidae, based on morphological research on the radulae, the shell, the soft part morphology and molecular phylogeny research on the 16S ribosomal RNA gene.[3]

Genera

The subfamily Pediculariinae contains the following tribes and genera:[1]

Description

The species in this subfamily differ in a radical way from other species in the Ovulidae by the morphology of the first and second marginal teeth in their radula. While these are symmetrical (and even palmaceous) in the Ovulidae, they are asymmetrical, as can be seen in Pseudocypraea adamsonii Sowerby, 1832 (formed like a swatter) or in Jenneria pustulata and Pedicularia sicula (formed like a whip).[4]

Feeding habits

These sea snails feed on stony corals (Scleractinia) and hydrozoans.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pediculariinae Gray, 1853. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Simone L. R. L. (2004). "Morphology and Phylogeny of the Cypraeoidea (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda)". Papel Virtual Editoria (Rio de Janeiro): 185 pp.
  3. 1 2 Fehse D. (2007). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Ovulidae. XVI. The higher systematics". Spixiana 30(1): 121-125. PDF Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ (in French) Dolin L. & Ledon D. (2002). "Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondents d’Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l’Éocène inférieur de Gan, (France)". Geodiversitas 24(2): 329-347.
  5. ↑ Dolin L. (1997) "Jenneria (Projenneria) eniwetokensis subgen. nov., sp. nov.: a western Pacific new occurrence for the genus". Cossmanniana 4(1-2): 20-24.

Further reading

  • Lorenz, F.; Fehse D. (2009). The living Ovulidae - A manual of the families of allied cowries Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. pp. 650 pp.
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