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Pyropelta oluae

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Species of gastropod

Pyropelta oluae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Pyropeltidae
Genus: Pyropelta
Species: P. oluae
Binomial name
Pyropelta oluae
Warén & Bouchet, 2009

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

Distribution

This small impet occurs at methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River

References

  1. ^ 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 oluae Warén & Bouchet, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
Taxon identifiers
Pyropelta oluae


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