Cordesia provannoides
Appearance
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(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda
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Genus: | Cordesia |
Species: | C. provannoides
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Cordesia provannoides |
Cordesia provannoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Provannidae.[2]
Cordesia provannoides is the only species in the genus Cordesia.[1]
Description
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Distribution
This species occurs at methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River.[1]
Larvae of the Cordesia provannoides, or a very similar species, has been collected 0–100 m below the surface in the tropical East Atlantic overlying a total water depth of 4570 m.[3]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-2.5 text from the reference [3]
- ^ a b c d Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2009). "New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(23): 2326-2349. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.013
- ^ Cordesia provannoides Warén & Bouchet, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 May 2010.
- ^ a b Olu K., Cordes E. E., Fisher C. R., Brooks J. M., Sibuet M. & Desbruyères D. (2010). "Biogeography and Potential Exchanges Among the Atlantic Equatorial Belt Cold-Seep Faunas". PLoS ONE 5(8): e11967. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011967.
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