Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea > Family Ovulidae > Subfamily Pediculariinae > Genus Pedicularia

Pedicularia decussata A. Gould, 1855

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pedicularia*	Swainson, 1840	accepted genus name
*Mioseguenzia*	F. Nordsieck, 1973	synonym
*Thyreus*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym

Literature

original description	Gould, A.A. (1855). The results of an examination of some deep dredgings off the coast of Georgia and Florida, by the officers of the Coast Survey. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 5: 126–127.
additional source	Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pedicularia decussata A. Gould, 1855. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:419735