Lepetodrilus ovalis

Lepetodrilus ovalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetodriloidea
Family: Lepetodrilidae
Genus: Lepetodrilus
Species: L. ovalis
Binomial name
Lepetodrilus ovalis
McLean, 1988

Lepetodrilus ovalis is a species of small, deep-sea sea snail, a hydrothermal vent limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lepetodrilidae.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in hydrothermal vents and seeps off the East Pacific Rise.

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