Neolepetopsis nicolasensis

Neolepetopsis nicolasensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Family: Neolepetopsidae
Genus: Neolepetopsis
Species:
N. nicolasensis
Binomial name
Neolepetopsis nicolasensis
McLean, 2008[1]

Neolepetopsis nicolasensis is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neolepetopsidae, one of the families of true limpets.[2]

Description

Distribution

northeastern Pacific Ocean[1]

Habitat

whale bone[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c McLean J. H. (2008). "Three New Species of the Family Neolepetopsidae (Patellogastropoda) from Hydrothermal Vents and Whale Falls in the Northeastern Pacific". Journal of Shellfish Research 27(1): 15–20. doi:10.2983/0730-8000(2008)27[15:TNSOTF]2.0.CO;2. abstract.
  2. ^ Neolepetopsis nicolasensis McLean, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2010.


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