Pyropelta

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

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 elongata S.Q. Zhang & S.P. Zhang, 2017
• 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

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