Fucaria mystax

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Fucaria mystax
Fucaria mystax (MNHN-IM-2000-31241).jpeg
Shell of Fucaria mystax (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Fucaria
Species:
F. mystax
Binomial name
Fucaria mystax
Warén & Bouchet, 2001

Fucaria mystax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 5.8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off hydrothermal vents of the Edison seamount (off Papua New Guinea) at a depth of 1483 m. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Fucaria mystax Warén & Bouchet, 2001 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. ↑ Crispin T. S. Little, Taniel Danelian, Richard J. Herrington, Rachel M. Haymon, Early Jurassic Hydrothermal Vent Community from the Franciscan Complex, California; Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 78, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 542-559


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