Pediculariinae

Pediculariinae
Pedicularia elegantissima
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Subfamily:	Pediculariinae Gray, 1853
Genera
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Diversity[citation needed]
20 species

Pediculariinae is a subfamily of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae and the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies.^[1] As of 2009, it comprises 48 described species of which 20 are regarded as valid by most scientists.^{[citation needed]}