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Pyropelta

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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:

  • Pyropelta bohlei L. Beck, 1996
  • Pyropelta corymba McLean & Haszprunar, 1987
  • Pyropelta musaica McLean & Haszprunar, 1987
  • Pyropelta oluae Warén & Bouchet, 2009
  • Pyropelta ryukyuensis Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2008
  • Pyropelta sibuetae Warén & Bouchet, 2009
  • Pyropelta wakefieldi McLean, 1992
  • Pyropelta yamato Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003

    • References

    Pyropelta Wikipedia
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