Pyropelta yamato

Pyropelta yamato
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
Species: P. yamato
Binomial name
Pyropelta yamato
Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003[1]

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

Habitat

This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps[2]

References


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