Pyropelta
| Pyropelta | |
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| Shell of Pyropelta ovalis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Lepetelloidea |
| Family: | Pyropeltidae |
| Genus: | Pyropelta McLean & Haszprunar, 1987[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pyropelta musaica J. H. McLean & Haszprunar, 1987
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Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyropeltidae.[2]
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 craigsmithi (J. H. McLean, 1992)
- Pyropelta elongata S.Q. Zhang & S.P. Zhang, 2017
- Pyropelta musaica McLean & Haszprunar, 1987
- Pyropelta oluae Warén & Bouchet, 2009
- Pyropelta ovalis L. Beck, 2023
- Pyropelta ryukyuensis Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2008
- † Pyropelta seca Kiel, Hybertsen, Hyžný & Klompmaker, 2019
- Pyropelta sibuetae Warén & Bouchet, 2009
- Pyropelta wakefieldi McLean, 1992
- Pyropelta yamato Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
References
- ^ McLean J. H. & Haszprunar (1987). Veliger 30(2): 197.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyropelta J. H. McLean & Haszprunar, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391493 on 2022-03-20
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