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Monoplacophorus zenkevitchi Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova 1983

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Monoplacophorus zenkevitchi Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova, 1983

Monoplacophorus zenkevitchi Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova 1983: 993, figs 5, 11–13.

The species is known from the holotype only, described from the Central Pacific, north of Johnston Islands, west of Hawaii (20°41.7'N, 170°52.9'W) from 2000 m depth. However, the first record of the species dates back to Filatova et al. (1968), who mentioned it as undetermined Monoplacophora.

Genus Neopilina Lemche, 1957

Type species: Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957, by monotypy.

Notes

Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, 2008, A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca) *, pp. 205-222 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183815

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  • Moskalev, L. I., Starobogatov, Y. I. & Filatova, Z. A. (1983) New data on the abyssal Monoplacophora from the Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans. Zoologiceskij Zurnal, 62 (7), 981 - 996.
  • Lemche, H. (1957) A new living deep-sea mollusc of the Cambro-Devonian class Monoplacophora. Nature, 179, 413 - 416.