Lepetodrilus pustulosus

Lepetodrilus pustulosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetodriloidea
Family: Lepetodrilidae
Genus: Lepetodrilus
Species: L. pustulosus
Binomial name
Lepetodrilus pustulosus
McLean, 1988

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

Description

The size of the shell reaches 6 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in hydrothermal vents and seeps off the East Pacific Rise and the Galapagos Rift

References


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