Shinkailepas
A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right
Shell of Shinkailepas conspira (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Phenacolepadidae
Subfamily: Shinkailepadinae
Genus: Shinkailepas
Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989

Shinkailepas is a genus of sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Phenacolepadidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Shinkailepas include:[1]

  • Shinkailepas conspira L. Beck, 2023
  • Shinkailepas kaikatensis Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
  • Shinkailepas mojinensis Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
  • Shinkailepas tollmanni (L. Beck, 1992)
  • Shinkailepas tufari L. Beck, 1992
Synonyms

References

  • Okutani, T. ; Saito, H. ; Hashimoto, J. (1989). A New Neritacean Limpet from a Hydrothermal Vent Site near Ogasawara Islands,Japan. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 48(4): 223-230
  • Beck, L. (1992). Two new neritacean limpets (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Neritacea: Phenacolepadidae) from active hydrothermal vents at Hydrothermal Field 1 “Wienerwald” in the Manus Back-Arc Basin (Bismarck Sea, Papua-New Guinea). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B,. 93: 259–275.


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