Shinkailepas gigas

Shinkailepas gigas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neritoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Neritimorpha Ordo: Cycloneritida Superfamilia: Neritoidea

Familia: Phenacolepadidae
Subfamilia: Shinkailepadinae
Genus: Shinkailepas
Species: Shinkailepas gigas

Name

Shinkailepas gigas Chen, Watanabe & Tsuda, SOSA et al., 2024: 24–29, figs. 6–7

• ZooBank: A7359192-34E4-4707-87C8-2AD89B69E61C

• Type locality: Western Pacific Ocean, Northwest Eifuku Volcano vent field, 21.487305°N 144.041562°E / 21.487305; 144.041562, depth 1615 m.

• Holotype: SMF 373153.

• Paratypes: NSMT-Mo 79486–79487; SMF 373154; MNHN-2019-34808.

References

• Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), Brandt, A., Chen, C., Engel, L., Esquete, P., Horton, T., Jażdżewska, A.M., Johannsen, N., Kaiser, S., Kihara, T.C., Knauber, H., Kniesz, K., Landschoff, J., Lörz, A-N., Machado, F.M., Martínez-Muñoz, C.A., Riehl, T., Serpell-Stevens, A., Sigwart, J.D., Tandberg, A.H.S., Tato, R., Tsuda, M., Vončina, K., Watanabe, H.K., Wenz, C., Williams, J.D. 2024. Ocean Species Discoveries 1–12 — A primer for accelerating marine invertebrate taxonomy. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e128431. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e128431 . Reference page. 

Links

• Shinkailepas gigas C. Chen, H. K. Watanabe & M. Tsuda, 2024 in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on September 08, 2025

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