Lepetodrilus guaymasensis

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Lepetodrilus guaymasensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Lepetodrilidae
Genus: Lepetodrilus
Species:
L. guaymasensis
Binomial name
Lepetodrilus guaymasensis
McLean, 1988

Lepetodrilus guaymasensis is a species of small, deep-sea sea snail, a hydrothermal vent limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lepetodrilidae. [1]

Distribution

This species occurs in hydrothermal vents and seeps in the Guaymas Transform Ridge, off Southern Baja California.

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