''Desbruyeresia marisindica'' is a

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, a marine

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in the

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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) ...

. The specific name ''marisindica'' is from the Latin language word ''mare'' that means "sea" and from the Latin word ''indica'' that means "Indian" referring to the

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, where the species lives.

Distribution

Central Indian Ridge hydrothermal vents map

The type locality is the Kairei hydrothermal vent site on the

Central Indian Ridge The Central Indian Ridge (CIR) is a north–south-trending mid-ocean ridge in the western Indian Ocean. Geological setting The morphology of the CIR is characteristic of slow to intermediate ridges. The axial valley is 500–1000 m deep; ...

, just north of the

Rodrigues Triple Point The Rodrigues Triple Junction (RTJ), also known as the Central Indian ceanTriple Junction (CITJ) is a geologic triple junction in the southern Indian Ocean where three tectonic plates meet: the African Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, and the An ...

Description

References

* Desbruyères, D., M. Segonzac & M. Bright (eds.). 2006. ''Handbook of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna''. Second Edition Denisia 18: 1–544. (Copepods 316-355)(Polychaeta 183-296) marisindica Gastropods described in 2004 {{Provannidae-stub