Alviniconcha hessleri
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| Alviniconcha hessleri | |
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| Alviniconcha hessleri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Abyssochrysoidea |
| Family: | Provannidae |
| Genus: | Alviniconcha |
| Species: | A. hessleri |
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| Alviniconcha hessleri Okutani, T.A. & S. Ohta, 1988 |
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Alviniconcha hessleri is a species of deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Provannidae.
These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vents in Indian Ocean.
An member of Bacteria from class Epsilonproteobacteria occurs as endosymbiont of large gills of Alviniconcha hessleri.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Yohey Suzuki, Takenori Sasaki, Masae Suzuki, Yuichi Nogi, Tetsuya Miwa, Ken Takai, Kenneth H. Nealson & Koki Horikoshi (September 2005) "Novel Chemoautotrophic Endosymbiosis between a Member of the Epsilonproteobacteria and the Hydrothermal-Vent Gastropod Alviniconcha aff. hessleri (Gastropoda: Provannidae) from the Indian Ocean". Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(9): 5440-5450. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.9.5440-5450.2005
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