1. Start
  4. Pedicularia
  5. Pedicularia pacifica
Anzeige
Fauna Marin GmbH Meerwasser24.de Tropic Marin Professionell Lab Whitecorals.com Fauna Marin GmbH

Pedicularia pacifica

Pedicularia-pacifica-jj-0177-111210

Uploaded by Muelly.
Courtesy of the author Scott & Jeanette Johnson, Kwajalein Unterwater Please visit www.underwaterkwaj.com for more information. Image detail

Profile

lexID:
13770 
AphiaID:
437176 
Scientific:
Pedicularia pacifica 
German:
Pazifische Pedicularia 
English:
Pacific Pedicularia 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Ovulidae (Family) > Pedicularia (Genus) > pacifica (Species) 
Initial determination:
Pease, 1865 
Occurrence:
Marshall øerne, New Zealand 
Sea depth:
- 30 Meter 
Size:
0,2 cm - 0,8 cm 
Food:
Parasitic, Koral polypper 
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:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2021-04-05 13:31:35 

Info

Pedicularia pacifica Pease, 1865

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 pacifica live and feed on Californian Hydrocoral (Stylaster sp.).

Synonymised names:
Pedicularia maoria Powell, 1937
Pediculariona stylasteris (Hedley, 1903)

External links

  1. gastropods (en). Abgerufen am 05.04.2021.
  2. underwaterkwaj.com (en). Abgerufen am 05.04.2021.
  3. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 05.04.2021.

Pictures

Commonly

Pedicularia-pacifica-k05-101111
Pedicularia-pacifica-jj-0171-111210
Pedicularia-pacifica-jj-0186-111210
Pedicularia-pacifica-jj-0177-111210

Husbandry know-how of owners

0 husbandary tips from our users available
Show all and discuss