Pedicularia elegantissima

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

Pedicularia elegantissima
Shell of Pedicularia elegantissima (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Pedicularia
Species:	P. elegantissima
Binomial name
Pedicularia elegantissima Deshayes, 1863

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Réunion.

References

• Liltved W.R. (2000) Cowries and their relatives of southern Africa. A study of the southern African cypraeacean and velutinacean gastropod fauna. Seacomber Publications. 224 pp.
• Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009) The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.

External links

• Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1–144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris.