Gigantopelta

Gigantopelta is a genus of deep sea snails from hydrothermal vents, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Peltospiridae.[1]

Gigantopelta
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.
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Gigantopelta

Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1]
Diversity[1]
2 species

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References

  1. Chen C., Linse K., Roterman C. N., Copley J. T. & Rogers A. D. (2015). "A new genus of large hydrothermal vent‐endemic gastropod (Neomphalina: Peltospiridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2), 319-335. doi:10.1111/zoj.12279.


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