Pyropelta
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| Pyropelta | |
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| Shell of Pyropelta ovalis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
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.
