Pyropelta
Sign in to savePyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyropeltidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLepetellida
- FamilyPyropeltidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 59
- Family
- Pyropeltidae
- Collections
- SIO, USNM
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Mexico, United States
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- Parent taxon
- Pyropeltidae
- Image
- Pyropelta sibuetae (MNHN-IM-2000-20044).jpeg
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Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyropelta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.