Gigantopelta
Appearance
Gigantopelta | |
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View of a number of Gigantopelta chessoia (the brown snails) partially covered by limpets Lepetodrilus sp. (the small yellow-greenish oval shapes) at the East Scotia Ridge E2 hydrothermal vent site in the Scotia Sea. The scale bar is 10 cm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Neomphaliones |
Order: | Neomphalida |
Family: | Peltospiridae |
Genus: | Gigantopelta Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1] |
Diversity[1] | |
2 species |
Gigantopelta is a genus of deep sea snails from hydrothermal vents, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Peltospiridae.[1]
Species
[edit]- Gigantopelta aegis Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1]
- Gigantopelta chessoia Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Chen C., Linse K., Roterman C. N., Copley J. T. & Rogers A. D. (2015). "A new genus of large hydrothermal vent‐endemic gastropod (Neomphalina: Peltospiridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2), 319-335. doi:10.1111/zoj.12279.