Iheyaspira bathycodon

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Iheyaspira bathycodon
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Iheyaspira
Species:
I. bathycodon
Binomial name
Iheyaspira bathycodon
Nye, Copley, Linse & Plouviez, 2013 [1]

Iheyaspira bathycodon, common name the bell-toothed vent top-snail, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Skeneidae. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs off the Von Damm Vent Field, Mid-Cayman spreading center, in the Caribbean Sea, at a depth of 2,300 m. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Nye V., Copley J., Linse K. & Plouviez S. (2013). "Iheyaspira bathycodon new species (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea: Turbinidae: Skeneinae) from the Von Damm Vent Field, Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre, Caribbean". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom93(4): 1017–1024. doi:10.1017/S0025315412000823.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Iheyaspira bathycodon Nye, Copley, Linse & Plouviez, 2013. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=730788 on 2013-10-22


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