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.
Species within the genus Pyropelta include:
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Neomphaloidea is a superfamily of deep-sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks. Neomphaloidea is the only superfamily in the order Neomphalida.
Neolepetopsidae is a family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda.
Pyropeltidae is a family of gastropods in the clade Vetigastropoda.
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Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order, although they are treated as an unranked clade in Bouchet and Rocroi, 2005.
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Pyropelta musaica is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.
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Paralepetopsis is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Neolepetopsidae.
Phymorhynchus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Cantrainea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colloniidae.
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Provanna is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Provannidae.
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