Iheyaspira bathycodon

Iheyaspira bathycodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Iheyaspira
Species:	I. bathycodon
Binomial name
*Iheyaspira bathycodon* Nye, Copley, Linse & Plouviez, 2013

Iheyaspira bathycodon is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs off the Von Damm Vent Field, Mid-Cayman spreading center, in the Caribbean Sea, at a depth of 2,300 m.

References

↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Iheyaspira bathycodon Nye, Copley, Linse & Plouviez, 2013. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=730788 on 2013-10-22

Nye V., Copley J., Linse K. & Plouviez S. (2013) Iheyaspira bathycodon new species (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea: Turbinidae: Skeneinae) from the Von Damm Vent Field, Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre, Caribbean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 93(4): 1017–1024

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