Pyropelta sibuetae

Pyropelta sibuetae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
Species: P. sibuetae
Binomial name
Pyropelta sibuetae
Warén & Bouchet, 2009[1]

Pyropelta sibuetae is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.[2]

Distribution

This small limpet occurs at methane seeps off the Congo River[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Warén A. & Bouchet P. (2009). "New gastropods from deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps off West Africa". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 56(23): 2326-2349. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.013
  2. Pyropelta sibuetae Warén & Bouchet, 2009.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.


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