Temnocinclis Euripes
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''Temnocinclis'' is a monotypic genus 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 ...
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Sutilizonidae Sutilizonidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, deepwater hydrothermal vent snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Taxonomy This family has no ...
containing the single species ''Temnocinclis euripes''. This mollusc, a species of slit-limpet that measures up to four millimeters long, lives at
hydrothermal vent A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspot ...
s.McLean, J. H. (1989)
New slit-limpets from hydrothermal vents, Part 1.
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Species

* '' Temnocinclis euripes'' McLean, 1989


References

* Geiger D.L. (2012) ''Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae''. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7 Sutilizonidae Monotypic mollusc genera Monotypic gastropod genera Gastropods described in 1989 {{Sutilizonidae-stub