Margarites shinkai

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Margarites shinkai
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Margaritidae
Genus: Margarites
Species:
M. shinkai
Binomial name
Margarites shinkai
Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992

Margarites shinkai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae. [1] The species is named after the deep diving submersible DSV Shinkai 2000. [2]

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Distribution

This marine species occurs near cold seeps off the Sagami Bay, Japan.

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References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Margarites shinkai Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512332 on 2012-09-01
  2. Okutani, Takashi; Tsuchida, Eiji; Fujikura, Katsunori (1992). "Five Bathyal Gastropods Living within or near the Calyptogena–Community of the Hatsushima Islet,Sagami Bay". Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 51 (3): 137–148. doi:10.18941/venusjjm.51.3_137.