Pedicularia vanderlandi Pedicularia

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AphiaID:: 437177

Scientific:: Pedicularia vanderlandi
German:: Pedicularia
English:: Pedicularia

Category:: Snails
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Ovulidae (Family) > Pedicularia (Genus) > vanderlandi (Species)
Initial determination:: Goud & B. W. Hoeksema, 2001

Occurrence:: Bali, Indonesia, Marschall Islands
Sea depth:: Meter
Size:: 0" - 0" (0,2cm - 0,8cm)
Temperature:: °F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C)
Food:: Coral polyps = corallivorous, Parasitic
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: None

Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown
CITES:: Not evaluated
Red List:: Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Pedicularia californica
Kalifornische Pedicularia
Pedicularia dautzenbergi
Pedicularia decurvata
Pedicularia decussata
Pedicularia elegantissima
Pedicularia granulata
Pedicularia japonica
Pedicularia morrisoni
Pedicularia pacifica
Pazifische Pedicularia
Pedicularia sicula
Pedicularia splendida
Pedicularia stylasteris
Pedicularia subtilis
Pedicularia vanderlandi
Pedicularia

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2021-04-05 13:35:27
Last edit:: 2021-04-05 13:38:21

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Pedicularia vanderlandi Goud & B. W. Hoeksema, 2001

Pedicularia is a genus of small predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, cowry-like marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies.These snails live on and feed on certain corals.

Pedicularia vanderlandi lives on Hydrocorals in the genera Distichopora, generally in shallow water.

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Pedicularia vanderlandi spec. nov., a symbiotic snail (Caenogastropoda: Ovulidae) on the hydrocoral Distichopora vervoorti Cairns & Hoeksema, 1998 (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae), from Bali, Indonesia (en). Abgerufen am 05.04.2021.
underwaterkwaj.com (en). Abgerufen am 05.04.2021.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 05.04.2021.

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