Cordesia provannoides

Cordesia provannoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Abyssochrysoidea
Family: Provannidae
Genus: Cordesia
Warén & Bouchet, 2009[1]
Species: C. provannoides
Binomial name
Cordesia provannoides
Warén & Bouchet, 2009[1]

Cordesia provannoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Provannidae.[2]

Cordesia provannoides is the only species in the genus Cordesia.[1]

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Description

Distribution

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

Larvae of the Cordesia provannoides, or a very similar species, has been collected 0-100 m below the surface in the tropical East Atlantic overlying a total water depth of 4570 m.[3]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.5 text from the reference [3]

  1. ^ a b c d Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2009). "New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(23): 2326-2349. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.013
  2. ^ Cordesia provannoides Warén & Bouchet, 2009.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=458592 on 5 May 2010.
  3. ^ a b Olu K., Cordes E. E., Fisher C. R., Brooks J. M., Sibuet M. & Desbruyères D. (2010). "Biogeography and Potential Exchanges Among the Atlantic Equatorial Belt Cold-Seep Faunas". PLoS ONE 5(8): e11967. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011967.