Micropilina tangaroa

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Micropilina tangaroa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Monoplacophora
Order: Tryblidiida
Family: Micropilinidae
Genus: Micropilina
Species:
M. tangaroa
Binomial name
Micropilina tangaroa
Marshall, 1990

Micropilina tangaroa is a species of monoplacophoran, a superficially limpet-like marine mollusc. It is known from a single specimen found off the coast of New Zealand.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Kano, Y., Kimura, S., Kimura, T. and Warén, A. (2012), Living Monoplacophora: morphological conservatism or recent diversification?. Zoologica Scripta, 41: 471-488. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00550.x


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