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Pyropelta musaica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
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.

Distribution

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

Habitat

This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps

References

1. ^ Pyropelta musaica McLean & Haszprunar, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.

• 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
• Warén, A. & Bouchet, P. (2001) Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps; new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44, 116–231.

External links

• Steffen Kiel, Shell structures of vant and seep Gastropods, Malacologia v. 46 (1) (2004)

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