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Micropilina
Sign in to saveMicropilina is a genus of monoplacophoran molluscs. They are very small, mostly deepwater animals which have a superficially limpet-like shell.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassMonoplacophora
- OrderNeopilinida
- FamilyNeopilinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations1
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 31
- Family
- Neopilinidae
- Collections
- ALMNH, UM-RSMAS
- Recorded in
- Ecuador
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Micropilina is a genus of monoplacophoran molluscs. They are very small, mostly deepwater animals which have a superficially limpet-like shell.
In addition to a number of living, deep-sea species, this genus also includes a shallow water fossil from the middle Pleistocene of Italy - and this is the only fossil representative of this lineage subsequent to the Devonian period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Micropilina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.