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Lepetodrilus fucensis

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

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

The shell grows to a size of 10 mm.

This species occurs in hydrothermal vents and seeps of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific



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