Tentaoculus granulatus

Tentaoculus granulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pseudococculinidae
Genus: Tentaoculus
Species: T. granulatus
Binomial name
Tentaoculus granulatus
Warén & Bouchet, 2009[1]

Tentaoculus granulatus is a species of sea snail, deep-sea limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cocculinidae.[2]

Distribution

This small impet occurs at methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. Tentaoculus granulatus Warén & Bouchet, 2009.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 March 2010.


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