Gigantopelta chessoia
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Gigantopelta chessoia is a species of deep sea snail from hydrothermal vents, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Peltospiridae.[1]
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Gigantopelta chessoia The scale bar is 1 cm. | |
View of a number of Gigantopelta chessoia (the brown snails) partially covered by limpets Lepetodrilus sp. (the small yellow-greenish oval shapes) at the East Scotia Ridge E2 hydrothermal vent site in the Scotia Sea. The scale bar is 10 cm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Neomphaliones |
Order: | Neomphalida |
Family: | Peltospiridae |
Genus: | Gigantopelta |
Species: | G. chessoia |
Binomial name | |
Gigantopelta chessoia Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1] | |
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