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| Eulepetopsis vitrea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Neolepetopsidae |
| Genus: | Eulepetopsis McLean, 1990 |
| Species: | E. vitrea |
| Binomial name | |
| Eulepetopsis vitrea McLean, 1990 | |
Eulepetopsis vitrea is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neolepetopsidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Eulepetopsis vitrea is the only species in the genus Eulepetopsis.
Description
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Distribution
It lives in the Galapagos Rift and the East Pacific Rise.
Habitat
It inhabits hydrothermal vents.
References
- ^ McLean J. H. (7 November 1990). "Neolepetopsidae, a new docoglossate limpet family from hydrothermal vents and its relevance to patellogastropod evolution". Journal of Zoology, London 222(3): 485-528, plates 1-12. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1990.tb04047.x.
- Eulepetopsis vitrea McLean, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Eulepetopsis vitrea | |
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