Neopilina galatheae
| Neopilina galatheae | |
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| The holotype of N. galatheae at the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Monoplacophora |
| Order: | Tryblidiida |
| Family: | Neopilinidae |
| Genus: | Neopilina |
| Species: | N. galatheae
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| Binomial name | |
| Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957
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Neopilina galatheae is a species of monoplacophoran, a superficially limpet-like marine mollusc.[1] Its name means new Pilina (after Pilina, an extinct Monoplacophore that lived about 400 million years ago).
It was discovered off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica in the 1950s, where 10 specimens were collected. Later, additional specimens have been collected off the coast of Chile and off Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico.[2]
Its discovery has been described as "the most dramatic one in the history of malacology."[3]
References[]
- ^ MolluscaBase (2020). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Neopilina galatheae". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ Schwabe, Enrico (2008). A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca). In: Martínez Arbizu, P. & Brix, S. (Eds) (2008) Bringing Light into Deep-sea Biodiversity. Zootaxa, 1866, 1–574.
- ^ Clausen, Conrad D. (1976). Neopilina: A Living Fossil. In: Geoscience Research Institute Volume 03-1
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