Crysomallon

Crysomallon
Crysomallon
Preserved specimen of Crysomallon squamiferum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Neomphaloidea
Family: Peltospiridae
Genus: Crysomallon
Van Dover et al., 2001 [1]

Crysomallon is a genus of deep sea hydrothermal vent snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Neomphalidae.[citation needed]

Species

Species within the genus Crysomallon include:

  • Crysomallon squamiferum

References

  1. ^ Van Dover CL, Humphris SE, Fornari D, Cavanaugh CM, Collier R, Goffredi SK, Hashimoto J, Lilley MD, Reysenbach AL, Shank TM, Von Damm KL, Banta A, Gallant RM, Gotz D, Green D, Hall J, Harmer TL, Hurtado LA, Johnson P, McKiness ZP, Meredith C, Olson E, Pan IL, Turnipseed M, Won Y, Young CR 3rd, Vrijenhoek RC (2001). "Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents". Science 294 (5543): 818–23. doi:10.1126/science.1064574. PMID 11557843. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/5543/818. 


This Neomphalidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.