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Margarites shinkai

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Species of gastropod

Margarites shinkai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Margaritidae
Genus: Margarites
Species: M. shinkai
Binomial name
Margarites shinkai
Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992

Margarites shinkai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae. The species is named after the deep diving submersible DSV Shinkai 2000.

Distribution

This marine species occurs near cold seeps off the Sagami Bay, Japan.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Margarites shinkai Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512332 on 2012-09-01
  2. Okutani, Takashi; Tsuchida, Eiji; Fujikura, Katsunori (1992). "Five Bathyal Gastropods Living within or near the Calyptogena–Community of the Hatsushima Islet,Sagami Bay". Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 51 (3): 137–148. doi:10.18941/venusjjm.51.3_137.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Osaka. : Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp.

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Taxon identifiers
Margarites shinkai


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