| Lophopleurella capensis | |
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| Drawing of right side of preserved specimen of Lophopleurella capensis from original description by Johannes Thiele (1912). | |
| Drawing of left side of the same specimen. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia Informal group Opisthobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Oxynooidea |
| Family: | Oxynoidae |
| Genus: | Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956[1] |
| Species: | L. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophopleurella capensis (Thiele, 1912)[2] |
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Lophopleurella capensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.
Lophopleurella capensis is the only species in the genus Lophopleurella.[3]
The specific name "capensis" is from the Latin language, meaning "of the Cape", i.e. from the Cape Province".
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The type locality for this species is South Africa.[3]
This species was originally described under name Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis by German malacologist Johannes Thiele in 1912 as a result of the Gauss Expedition (1901–1903), that was the first German expedition to Antarctica.
Johannes Thiele described it very briefly stating, that it "has wing-shaped attachments on sides of the body and very small wing on its shell".[2]
German malacologist Adolf Michael Zilch established a new genus Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956[1] for this species, because the name Lophopleura Ragonot, 1891[4] had already been occupied and used for a genus of lepidopterans from family Pyralidae. Zilch only created the new generic name without a review of the genus.[1]