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Pyropelta corymba

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Species of gastropod

Pyropelta corymba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
Species: P. corymba
Binomial name
Pyropelta corymba
McLean & Haszprunar, 1987

Pyropelta corymba is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyropeltidae

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of California, Western Mexico.

Habitat

This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps

References

  1. ^ Pyropelta corymba McLean & Haszprunar, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
  • Warén, A. & Bouchet, P. (2001) Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps; new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44, 116–231
  • McLean J.H. (1992) Cocculiniform limpets (Cocculinidae and Pyropeltidae) living on whale bone in the deep sea off California. Journal of Molluscan Studies 58: 401-414.
Taxon identifiers
Pyropelta corymba


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