Pyropelta musaica

Pyropelta musaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
Species: P. musaica
Binomial name
Pyropelta musaica
McLean & Haszprunar, 1987

Pyropelta musaica is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific

Habitat

This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps[1]

References


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