Vema (genus)

Vema is a genus of deep-sea molluscs, monoplacophorans. The genus is named after the oceanographic Research Vessel Vema.

Vema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
(unranked): Monoplacophora
Class: Tergomya
Order: Tryblidiida
Family: Neopilinidae
Genus: Vema
Clarke & Menzies, 1959

All Vema species have six pairs of gills.[1]

Species

References

  1. Kano, Y.; Kimura, S.; Kimura, T.; Warén, A. (2012). "Living Monoplacophora: morphological conservatism or recent diversification?". Zoologica Scripta. 41 (5): 471–488. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00550.x.


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