Alviniconcha
Encyclopedia
Alviniconcha is a genus
of deep water sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Provannidae
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These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vent
s.
These are the only known existing animals whose nutrition is derived from an endosymbiotic relationship with proteobacteria
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of deep water sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Provannidae
Provannidae
Provannidae is a family of deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda .- Habitat :...
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These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vent
Hydrothermal vent
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart, ocean basins, and hotspots. Hydrothermal vents exist because the earth is both...
s.
These are the only known existing animals whose nutrition is derived from an endosymbiotic relationship with proteobacteria
Proteobacteria
The Proteobacteria are a major group of bacteria. They include a wide variety of pathogens, such as Escherichia, Salmonella, Vibrio, Helicobacter, and many other notable genera....
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Species
Species within the genus Alviniconcha include:- Alviniconcha hessleriAlviniconcha hessleriAlviniconcha hessleri is a species of deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Provannidae.These snails are part of the fauna of the hydrothermal vents in Indian Ocean....
(Okutani & Ohta, 1988)