Hirtopelta tufari

Hirtopelta tufari
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neomphalina
Superfamily: Neomphaloidea
Family: Peltospiridae
Genus: Hirtopelta
Species: H. tufari
Binomial name
Hirtopelta tufari
Beck, 2002[1]

Hirtopelta tufari is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Peltospiridae.[2]

Distribution

Hirtopelta tufari lives in hot vent sites in the East Pacific Rise.[1]

Description

The gill of Hirtopelta tufari is enlarged and there are bacterial endosymbions in the gill.[1] Endosymbiotic bacteria provide nutrition to the snail.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Beck L. A. (2002). "Hirtopelta tufari sp. n., a new gastropod species from hot vents at the East Pacific Rise (21° S) harbouring endocytosymbiotic bacteria in its gill (Gastropoda: Rhipidoglossa: Peltospiridae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 130: 249–257. abstract.
  2. Hirtopelta tufari Beck, 2002.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.


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