Lepetodrilus fucensis | |
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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