Lepetodrilus elevatus

Lepetodrilus elevatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Lepetodriloidea
Family:	Lepetodrilidae
Genus:	Lepetodrilus
Species:	L. elevatus
Binomial name
Lepetodrilus elevatus McLean, 1988
Synonyms
Lepetodrilus elevatus elevatus McLean, 1988

Lepetodrilus elevatus is a species of small, deep-sea sea snail, a hydrothermal vent limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lepetodrilidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in hydrothermal vents and seeps of the East Pacific Rise.

References

• Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2001). Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44(2): 116–231

External links

• Stephen Hunt, Structure and Composition of the Shell of the Archaeogastropod Limpet Lepetodrilus elevatus elevatus (Mclean 1988), Malacologia 1992 34 (1–2): 129–141