Fucaria mystax

Fucaria mystax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Fucaria
Species: F. mystax
Binomial name
Fucaria mystax
Warén & Bouchet, 2001

Fucaria mystax is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off hydrothermal vents of the Edison seamount at a depth of 1483 m.[2]

References

  1. Fucaria mystax Warén & Bouchet, 2001.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  2. Crispin T. S. Little, Taniel Danelian, Richard J. Herrington, Rachel M. Haymon, Early Jurassic Hydrothermal Vent Community from the Franciscan Complex, California; Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 78, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 542-559


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