Margarites shinkai

Margarites shinkai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae.^[1] The species is named after the deep diving submersible DSV Shinkai 2000.^[2]

Margarites shinkai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Margaritidae
Genus:	Margarites
Species:	M. shinkai
Binomial name
Margarites shinkai Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992

Distribution

This marine species occurs near cold seeps off the Sagami Bay, Japan.