Shinkailepas kaikatensis
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| Shinkailepas kaikatensis | |
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| A large number of adults (2 cm, 0.75 in) and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis (and an arc crab on the right), April 2004 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Phenacolepadidae |
| Genus: | Shinkailepas |
| Species: | S. kaikatensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Shinkailepas kaikatensis Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989 | |
Shinkailepas kaikatensis is a species of sea snail, a false limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phenacolepadidae.
It was first described by Okutani, Saito and Hashimoto in 1989.[1]