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Bathylepeta wadatsumi C. Chen, M. Tsuda & Ishitani, 2025
1824510 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1824510)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Chen, C.; Tsuda, M.; Ishitani, Y. (2025). A new large-sized lepetid limpet from the abyssal northwestern Pacific is the deepest known patellogastropod. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 101(3): 1249-1258., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.156207
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Type locality contained in Northwestern North Pacific, off Japan
, Note On shelf-like volcanic rock, on the western...
type locality contained in Northwestern North Pacific, off Japan [details]
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Type locality On shelf-like volcanic rock, on the western escarpment of a graben structure in the northwestern Pacific (32°37.0617'N, 144°6.5835'E, 5922 m deep), 500 km southeast of Tokyo, Japan. [details]
Etymology From ‘Wadatsumi’, god of the sea in Japanese mythology, alluding to its very deep habitat. It is also a reference to...
Etymology From ‘Wadatsumi’, god of the sea in Japanese mythology, alluding to its very deep habitat. It is also a reference to the fish-man character “Large Monk” Wadatsumi from Eiichiro Oda’s manga series "ONE PIECE" (Oda 2011), whose enormous body size is reminiscent of the large size that B. wadatsumi sp. nov. reaches for a deep-water patellogastropod. Used as a noun in apposition. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bathylepeta wadatsumi C. Chen, M. Tsuda & Ishitani, 2025. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1824510 on 2025-09-11
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Chen, C.; Tsuda, M.; Ishitani, Y. (2025). A new large-sized lepetid limpet from the abyssal northwestern Pacific is the deepest known patellogastropod. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 101(3): 1249-1258., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.156207
page(s): 1251, figs 2-5 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 1251, figs 2-5 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology From ‘Wadatsumi’, god of the sea in Japanese mythology, alluding to its very deep habitat. It is also a reference to the fish-man character “Large Monk” Wadatsumi from Eiichiro Oda’s manga series "ONE PIECE" (Oda 2011), whose enormous body size is reminiscent of the large size that B. wadatsumi sp. nov. reaches for a deep-water patellogastropod. Used as a noun in apposition. [details]Type locality On shelf-like volcanic rock, on the western escarpment of a graben structure in the northwestern Pacific (32°37.0617'N, 144°6.5835'E, 5922 m deep), 500 km southeast of Tokyo, Japan. [details]
