Shinkailepas

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

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)
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Shinkailepas

Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989

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
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References

  1. Shinkailepas. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.
  2. Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 May 2010.
  • 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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