Vema bacescui

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Vema bacescui
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Monoplacophora
Order: Tryblidiida
Family: Neopilinidae
Genus: Vema
Species:
V. bacescui
Binomial name
Vema bacescui
Menzies, 1968

Vema bacescui is a species of monoplacophoran, a superficially limpet-like marine mollusc.[1]

It is found in the Peru-Chile Trench of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. At 2.8 cm, it is relatively large for a monoplacophoran.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ 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.). "Vema bacescui". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  2. ^ 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.


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