Pyropelta

Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.

Pyropelta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Clade: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
McLean & Haszprunar, 1987[1]

The name Pyropelta is from the Greek; it means "fire limpet" because these small deepwater limpets live near hot hydrothermal vents and similar habitat.

Species

Species within the genus Pyropelta include:

References

  1. McLean J. H. & Haszprunar (1987). Veliger 30(2): 197.


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