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Neolepetopsis densata

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Species of gastropod

Neolepetopsis densata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Neolepetopsidae
Genus: Neolepetopsis
Species: N. densata
Binomial name
Neolepetopsis densata
McLean, 1990

Neolepetopsis densata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neolepetopsidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Description

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Distribution

East Pacific Rise near 12° N.

Habitat

a sulphide chimney

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. Neolepetopsis densata McLean, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
Taxon identifiers
Neolepetopsis densata


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