Pelicaria

Pelicaria
Dorsal view of a shell of Pelicaria vermis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Struthiolariidae
Genus:	Pelicaria Gray, 1857
Type species
Buccinum vermis Martyn, 1784
Synonyms
Struthiolaria (Pelicaria) Gray, 1857

Pelicaria is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Struthiolariidae.^[1]

Species[]

• † Beu, 2010
• † (Zittel, 1864)
• † Marwick, 1965
• † (Neef, 1970)
• † Beu, 2010
• † (Marwick, 1931)
• † (Neef, 1970)
• † (Suter, 1914)
• † (Marwick, 1926)
• † (Suter, 1915)
• † Beu, 1970
• † (Bartrum & Powell, 1928)
• † (Marwick, 1924)
• Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)
• † (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1920)

Species brought into synonymy

• Pelicaria acuminata (Marwick, 1924): synonym of Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)
• Pelicaria convexa (Marwick, 1924): synonym of Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)
• Pelicaria fossa (Marwick, 1924): synonym of Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)
• † Pelicaria mangaoparia Vella, 1953: synonym of Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)
• † Pelicaria marwicki Finlay, 1931: synonym of † (Finlay, 1931) (original combination)
• † Pelicaria rotunda Vella, 1953: synonym of Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)

References[]

• Beu, AG (2010). "Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 3. Gastropoda (Vetigastropoda - Littorinimorpha)". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 40 (3–4): 59–180. doi:10.1080/03036758.2010.500717.
• Gray, J. E. (1857). Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part I. (Gastropoda). British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp

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