''Bayerius zenkevitchi'' is a
species of
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 ...
, a marine
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. T ...
mollusk in the
family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bayerius zenkevitchi (Lus, 1975). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1426018 on 2020-09-20]
Description
Distribution
This abyssal marine species was found in the
Peru-Chile Trench at 5200–6040 m.
References
* Lus V.J. (1975). New species of molluscs - Tacita zenkevitchi (Buccinidae) from the lower-abyssal of Peru-Chile Trench region, with description of the egg capsules and some stages of ontogenesis.
n Russian
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''.
History
...
Trudy Instituta Okeanologii AN SSSR. 103: 162–178.
External links
Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2001). Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44(2): 116-231Kantor Y.I., Kosyan A., Sorokin P., Herbert D.G. & Fedosov A. (2020). Review of the abysso-hadal genus Bayerius (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the North-West Pacific, with description of two new species. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 160: 103256
Buccinidae
Gastropods described in 2001
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