Shinkailepas kaikatensis
| Shinkailepas kaikatensis | |
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| A large number of adults (2 cm, 0.75 in) and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis (and an arc crab on the right), April 2004 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Phenacolepadidae |
| Genus: | Shinkailepas |
| Species: | S. kaikatensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Shinkailepas kaikatensis Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989 | |
Shinkailepas kaikatensis is a species of sea snail, a false limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phenacolepadidae.
Description
The individuals in the NOAA image are adults of 2 cm (0.75 in) living on rock surfaces at a hydrothermal vent at the East Diamante seamount, which is westsouthwest of the small island of Farallon de Medinilla in the Southern Seamount Province of the Mariana Islands. The hydrothermal vent at East Diamante is "shallower than 200 m (650 ft)" according to the NOAA description. The white dots on the rocks and on the limpet shells in this image are the egg capsules of the species.
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