Gigantopelta aegis
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Species: | G. aegis
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| Gigantopelta aegis Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1]
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Gigantopelta aegis is a species of deep sea snail from hydrothermal vents, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Peltospiridae.[1]
Taxonomy
It was described as a new species within new genus Gigantopelta in 2015 and it was classified within the family Peltospiridae.[1]
Distribution
This species is known from its type locality only: Longqi hydrothermal vent field in Southwest Indian Ridge, 37°47.03′S 49°38.96′E / 37.78383°S 49.64933°E.[1]
Description
The width of the shell is 4.84–44.83 mm.[1] Valeues of δ13C were −26.42‰ ± 0.67.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Chen C., Linse K., Roterman C. N., Copley J. T. & Rogers A. D. (2015). "A new genus of large hydrothermal vent‐endemic gastropod (Neomphalina: Peltospiridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2), 319-335. doi:10.1111/zoj.12279.
- ^ Copley, J. T.; Marsh, L.; Glover, A. G.; Hühnerbach, V.; Nye, V. E.; Reid, W. D. K.; Sweeting, C. J.; Wigham, B. D.; Wiklund, H. (2016). "Ecology and biogeography of megafauna and macrofauna at the first known deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge". Scientific Reports. 6: 39158. doi:10.1038/srep39158. ISSN 2045-2322.