Pyropelta elongata

Pyropelta elongata is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyropeltidae.[1][2]

Pyropelta elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Clade: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
Species:
P. elongata
Binomial name
Pyropelta elongata
S.Q. Zhang & S.P. Zhang, 2017

Distribution

This species occurs in South China Sea.[1]

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Pyropelta elongata S.Q. Zhang & S.P. Zhang, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=993502 on 2019-01-26
  2. Zhang S.Q. [Shuqian] & Zhang S.P. [Suping]. (2017). Description of Pyropelta elongata sp. nov. (Gastropoda, Pyropeltidae) from a methane seep area in the South China Sea. American Malacological Bulletin. 35(1): 51-54.


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