PSEUDOCYPRAEINAE, Steadman & Cotton, 1943

Pacaud, J. - M., 2003, First fossil records of the Recent Ovulid genus Pseudocypraea Schilder, 1927 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) with description of a new species, Geodiversitas 25 (3), pp. 451-462 : 454

Subfamily PSEUDOCYPRAEINAE

Steadman & Cotton, 1943

REMARKS

The distinction between the ovulid subfamilies is mainly based on radular characters ( Schilder 1936). The Pseudocypraeinae differ from the Pediculariinae Gray, 1853 by the morphology of their first and second marginal teeth, which are asymmetrical and whip-shaped in the Pseudocypraeinae Pseudocypraea adamsonii (Sowerby, 1832) , and palmleaf-shaped in the conchologically similar Pediculariinae Jenneria (s.s.) pustulata (Solander, 1786) ( Thiele 1929: 270, figs 285, 286; Azuma 1975: 76, fig. 1; Dolin & Ledon 2002: 331).