Shinkailepas

Shinkailepas
A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Phenacolepadidae
Genus: Shinkailepas
Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989

Shinkailepas is a genus of sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Phenacolepadidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Shinkailepas include: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Shinkailepas .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.
  2. Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 May 2010.


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