Leptogyra costellata

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Leptogyra costellata
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Shell of Leptogyra costellata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neomphaliones
Order: Neomphalida
Family: Melanodrymiidae
Genus: Leptogyra
Species:
L. costellata
Binomial name
Leptogyra costellata
Warén & Bouchet, 2009 [1]

Leptogyra costellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Melanodrymiidae. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs at methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2009). "New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography56(23): 2326–2349. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.013
  2. ↑ Hess H., Beck F., Gensler H., Kano Y., Kiel S. & Haszprunar G. (2008). "Microanatomy, shell structure and molecular phylogeny of Leptogyra, Xyleptogyra and Leptogyropsis (Gastropoda: Neomphalida: Melanodrymiidae) from sunken wood ". Journal of Molluscan Studies 74(4): 383–401. doi : 10.1093/mollus/eyn030.


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