Shinkailepas
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| A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right | |
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| Shell of Shinkailepas conspira (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Phenacolepadidae |
| Subfamily: | Shinkailepadinae |
| Genus: | Shinkailepas Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989 |
Shinkailepas is a genus of sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Phenacolepadidae.[1]
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Shinkailepas include:[1]
- Shinkailepas conspira L. Beck, 2023
- Shinkailepas kaikatensis Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
- Shinkailepas mojinensis Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
- Shinkailepas tollmanni (L. Beck, 1992)
- Shinkailepas tufari L. Beck, 1992
- Synonyms
- Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001:[2] synonym of Divia briandi (Warén & Bouchet, 2001) (original combination)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Shinkailepas. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.
- ^ Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 May 2010.
- Okutani, T. ; Saito, H. ; Hashimoto, J. (1989). A New Neritacean Limpet from a Hydrothermal Vent Site near Ogasawara Islands,Japan. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 48(4): 223-230
- Beck, L. (1992). Two new neritacean limpets (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Neritacea: Phenacolepadidae) from active hydrothermal vents at Hydrothermal Field 1 “Wienerwald” in the Manus Back-Arc Basin (Bismarck Sea, Papua-New Guinea). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B,. 93: 259–275.
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