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Paralepetopsis sasakii
Shell of Paralepetopsis sasakii (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Family:	Neolepetopsidae
Genus:	Paralepetopsis
Species:	P. sasakii
Binomial name
Paralepetopsis sasakii Warén & Bouchet, 2009

Paralepetopsis sasakii is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Neolepetopsidae, one of the families of true limpets.

The specific name sasakii is in honor of Takenori Sasaki, the malacologist from the University Museum, the University of Tokyo.

Description

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Distribution

This small impet occurs at methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River.

References

1. ^ Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2009). "New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(23): 2326–2349. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.013
2. Paralepetopsis sasakii Warén & Bouchet, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.
3. (last change 19 January 2006) "The Present and Future of the University Museum". The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, accessed 10 April 2010.

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