Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Lepetelloidea Rank Genus | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Pyropeltidae | |
Similar Provanna, Lepetodrilus, Cocculinoidea, Cocculinidae, Calyptogena magnifica | ||
Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.
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
Pyropelta Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA