Pyropelta musaica

Pyropelta musaica is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.[1]

Pyropelta musaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Lepetelloidea
Family:
Pyropeltidae
Genus:
Pyropelta
Species:
P. musaica
Binomial name
Pyropelta musaica
McLean & Haszprunar, 1987

Distribution

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

Habitat

This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps[1]

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.


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