Hessler's Punk-rock Snail

Alviniconcha hessleri

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: —
Family: Paskentanidae

Alviniconcha is a genus of deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Paskentanidae. These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vents in the Indian and Western Pacific Ocean. These and another genus and species within the same family (Ifremeria nautilei) are the only known currently existing animals whose nutrition is derived from an endosymbiotic relationship with a member of bacteria from phylum Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria) and Gammaproteobacteria, occurring as endosymbionts within the vacuoles of Alviniconcha ctenidia (or molluscan…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

DescriptionAlviniconcha, Wikipedia contributors