Vema is a genus of deep-sea molluscs, monoplacophorans. The genus is named after the oceanographic Research Vessel Vema.
All Vema species have six pairs of gills.[1]
Species
- Vema bacescui (Menzies, 1968)
- Vema ewingi (Clarke & Menzies, 1959)
- Vema levinae Warén, 1996
- Vema occidua B. A. Marshall, 2006
References
- ^ 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.