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Abyssochrysoidea
''Abyssochrysoidea'' is a superfamily of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks unassigned in the orderCaenogastropoda. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Abyssochrysoidea Tomlin, 1927. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411644 on 2021-03-15 These marine snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vents and other deep-water habitats. Families Families within the superfamily Abyssochryoidea include: * Abyssochrysidae Tomlin, 1927 * Provannidae Warén & Ponder, 1991 * † Hokkaidoconchidae ''Kaim, R. G. Jenkins & Warén, 2008'' * unassigned : one genus '' Rubyspira'' Johnson, Warén, Lee, Kano, Kaim, Davis, Strong & Vrijenhoek, 2010 These two families Provaniidae and Abyssochrysidae were previously placed in the "Zygopleuroid group" (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Subsequently Provannidae was placed in the superfamily Abyssochrysoidea by Kai ...
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Abyssochrysidae
Abyssochrysidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Taxonomy The family Abyssochrysidae was previously placed in the "Zygopleuroid group" (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). In 2008, the sister group Provannidae was moved into the superfamily Abyssochrysoidea Tomlin, 1927 by Kain et al. and the family Abyssochrysidae was also moved into the superfamily Abyssochrysoidea.WoRMS (2009). Abyssochrysidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345309 on 2010-05-04 Genera Genera within this family include: * '' Acanthostrophia'' ** '' Acanthostrophia acanthica'' - a fossil ...
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Provannidae
Provannidae is a family of deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfmaily Abyssochrysoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 and updated in 2008 by Kaim et al.). MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Provannidae Warén & Ponder, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382206 on 2021-03-15 The genera '' Provanna'' and '' Desbruyeresia'' have smaller and slender shells, while the shells of ''Alviniconcha'' and ''Ifremeria'' are larger and swollen. The shells of these two last genera house a hypertrophied ctenidium large quantities of symbiotic bacteria. Habitat These snails are part of the fauna of the deep-sea hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls, and sunken driftwood environments.Suzuki Y. et al. (2006). "Single host and symbiont lineages of hydrothermal-vent gastropods ''Ifremeria nautilei'' (Provannidae): biogeography and evolution". ' ...
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Alviniconcha Hessleri
''Alviniconcha'' is a genus of deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Provannidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Alviniconcha Okutani & Ohta, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=449922 on 2013-06-25 These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vents in the Indian and Western Pacific Ocean. These and another genus and species within the same family ('' Ifremeria nautilei'') are the only known currently existing animals whose nutrition is derived from an endosymbiotic relationship with a member of bacteria from phylum Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria) occurs as an endosymbiont of the gills of ''Alviniconcha hessleri''.Yohey Suzuki, Takenori Sasaki, Masae Suzuki, Yuichi Nogi, Tetsuya Miwa, Ken Takai, Kenneth H. Nealson & Koki Horikoshi (September 2005) "Novel Chemoautotrophic Endosymbiosis between a Member of the Epsilonproteobacteria and the Hydrothermal-Vent Gastro ...
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Hokkaidoconchidae
Hokkaidoconchidae, common name hokkaidoconchids, is an extinct family of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.Kiel, S., Campbell, K.A., Elder, W.P., and Little, C.T.S. 2008''Jurassic and Cretaceous gastropods from hydrocarbon seeps in forearc basin and accretionary prism settings, California'' Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 679–703. Shell description The shell is small and elongate. Genera * '' Hokkaidoconcha'' Kaim, Jenkins & Warén, 2008 - type genus ** '' Hokkaidoconcha tanabei'' Kaim, Jenkins & Warén, 2008 - the type species from the upper Cretaceous in Japan ** '' Hokkaidoconcha bilirata'' Kiel, Campbell, Elder & Little, 2008 - from the lower Cretaceous in Wilbur Springs, California, USA ** '' Hokkaidoconcha morenoensis'' Kiel, Campbell, Elder & Little, 2008 - from the upper Cretaceous in Moreno Gulch, California, USA ** '' Hokkaidoconcha occidentalis'' ( Stanton, 1895) - synonym ''Hypsipleura? occidentalis'' Stanton, 1895 Stanton T. W. 1895''Contr ...
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Rubyspira
''Rubyspira'' is a genus of deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks unclassified in the family within the superfamily Abyssochrysoidea. Distribution They are known from Monterey Bay, California. Species Species within the genus ''Rubyspira'' include: * '' Rubyspira goffrediae'' Johnson, Warén, Lee, Kano, Kaim, Davis, Strong & Vrijenhoek, 2010 * '' Rubyspira osteovora'' Johnson, Warén, Lee, Kano, Kaim, Davis, Strong & Vrijenhoek, 2010 - type species of the genus ''Rubyspira'' * ''Rubyspira'' from São Paulo Ridge (undescribed species)Sumida P. Y. G., Alfaro-Lucas J. M., Shimabukuro M., Kitazato H., Perez J. A. A., Soares-Gomes A., Toyofuku T., Lima A. O. S., Ara K. & Fujiwara Y. (2016). "Deep-sea whale fall fauna from the Atlantic resembles that of the Pacific Ocean". ''Scientific Reports'' 6: Article number: 22139. . Ecology They are specialized bone-eating snails on whale falls. They were found on carcass of gray whale The gray whale (''Eschrichtius robustus'' ...
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John Read Le Brockton Tomlin
John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British malacologist. He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London and was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland on two separate occasions."J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864–1954"
Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. accessed 4 October 2010. Tomlin named more than a hundred of s, including: * The family
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Taxonomy Of The Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks. (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and slugs of every kind, from the land, from freshwater, and from saltwater.) The paper setting out this taxonomy was published in the journal ''Malacologia''. The system encompasses both living and extinct groups, as well as some fossils whose classification as gastropods is uncertain. The Bouchet & Rocroi system was the first complete gastropod taxonomy that primarily employed the concept of clades, and was derived from research on molecular phylogenetics; in this context a clade is a "natural grouping" of organisms based upon a statistical cluster analysis. In contrast, most of the previous overall taxonomic schemes for gastropods relied on morphological features to classify these animals, and used taxon ranks such as order, superorder ...
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Taxonomic Rank
In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family (biology), family, order (biology), order, class (biology), class, phylum (biology), phylum, kingdom (biology), kingdom, domain (biology), domain. While older approaches to taxonomic classification were phenomenological, forming groups on the basis of similarities in appearance, organic structure and behaviour, methods based on genetic analysis have opened the road to cladistics. A given rank subsumes under it less general categories, that is, more specific descriptions of life forms. Above it, each rank is classified within more general categories of organisms and groups of organisms related to each other through inheritance of phenotypic trait, traits or features from common ancestors. The rank of any ''species'' and the description of its ''genus'' is ''basic''; which means that to iden ...
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Sea Snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visible shell. Definition Determining whether some gastropods should be called sea snails is not always easy. Some species that live in brackish water (such as certain neritids) can be listed as either freshwater snails or marine snails, and some species that live at or just above the high tide level (for example species in the genus '' Truncatella'') are sometimes considered to be sea snails and sometimes listed as land snails. Anatomy Sea snails are a very large group of animals and a very diverse one. Most snails that live in salt water respire using a gill or gills; a few species, though, have a lung, are intertidal, and are active only at low tide when they can move around in the air. These air-breathing species includ ...
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Marine (ocean)
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided."Ocean."
''Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary'', Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ocean. Accessed March 14, 2021.
Separate names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: (the largest), ,

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Gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, and land snails and slugs. The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. The fossil history of this class goes back to the Late Cambrian. , 721 families of gastropods are known, of which 245 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record, while 476 are currently extant with or without a fossil record. Gastropoda (previously known as univalves and sometimes spelled "Gasteropoda") are a major part of the phylum Mollusca, and are the most highly diversified class in the phylum, with 65,000 to 80,000 living snail and slug species. The anatomy, behavior, feeding, and re ...
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Mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estimated between 60,000 and 100,000 additional species. The proportion of undescribed species is very high. Many taxa remain poorly studied. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms. Numerous molluscs also live in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are highly diverse, not just in size and anatomical structure, but also in behaviour and habitat. The phylum is typically divided into 7 or 8  taxonomic classes, of which two are entirely extinct. Cephalopod molluscs, such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopuses, are among the most neurologically advanced of all invertebrates—and either the giant squid or the colossal squid is the largest known invertebrate species. The gas ...
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