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Abyssochrysos melanioides

Abyssochrysos melanioides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Abyssochrysidae.

This is the type specimen for which Tomlin created a new family Abyssochrisidae, but couldn't refer at the time to any superfamily. Some years later he thought it had any affinities with the families Littorinidae <small>Children, 1834</small> and Thiaridae <small>Gill, 1871 (1823)</small>. Houbrick (1979) brought the then known species of Abyssochrysos in the superfamily Loxonematacea <small>Koken</small>, with close affinities to the families Zygopleuridae <small>Wenz, 1939</small>, Paleozygopleuridae <small>Horny</small>, and Pseudozygopleuridae <small>Knight, 1930</small>.

Distribution

  • The type specimen was dredged from a depth of 1645 m to 1828 m off the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
  • Philippines
  • Indonesia

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