🐚Scaly-foot gastropod
Chrysomallon squamiferum, commonly known as the scaly-foot gastropod, scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, or volcano snail, is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Peltospiridae. This vent-endemic gastropod is known only from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean, where it has been found at depths of about 2,400–2,900 m (1.5–1.8 mi). C. squamiferum differs greatly from other deep-sea gastropods, even the closely related neomphalines. In 2019, it was declared endangered on the IUCN Red List, the first species to be listed as such due to risks from deep-sea mining of its vent habitat.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
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Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumMollusca
- ›classGastropoda
- ›orderNeomphalida
- ›familyPeltospiridae
- ›genusChrysomallon
- ›speciesChrysomallon squamiferum
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classSnails & slugs · Gastropoda
- familyPeltospiridae
- genusChrysomallon
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classSnails & slugs · Gastropoda
- subclassNeomphalina
- superfamilyNeomphaloidea
- familyPeltospiridae
- genusChrysomallon
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