Fucaria mystax
Appearance
Fucaria mystax | |
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Shell of Fucaria mystax (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Skeneidae |
Genus: | Fucaria |
Species: | F. mystax
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Binomial name | |
Fucaria mystax Warén & Bouchet, 2001
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Fucaria mystax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 5.8 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off hydrothermal vents of the Edison seamount (off Papua New Guinea) at a depth of 1483 m.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Fucaria mystax Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Crispin T. S. Little, Taniel Danelian, Richard J. Herrington, Rachel M. Haymon, Early Jurassic Hydrothermal Vent Community from the Franciscan Complex, California; Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 78, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 542-559
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