Biology:Gigantopelta

Gigantopelta
	View of a number of Gigantopelta chessoia (the brown snails) partially covered by limpets Lepetodrilus sp. (the small yellow-greenish oval shapes) at the East Scotia Ridge E2 hydrothermal vent site in the Scotia Sea. The scale bar is 10 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Neomphaloidea
Family:	Peltospiridae
Genus:	Gigantopelta; Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015
Diversity
	2 species

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Gigantopelta is a genus of deep sea snails from hydrothermal vents, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Peltospiridae.^[1]

Species

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Chen C., Linse K., Roterman C. N., Copley J. T. & Rogers A. D. (2015). "A new genus of large hydrothermal vent‐endemic gastropod (Neomphalina: Peltospiridae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2), 319-335. doi:10.1111/zoj.12279.

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Gigantopelta

View of a number of Gigantopelta chessoia (the brown snails) partially covered by limpets Lepetodrilus sp. (the small yellow-greenish oval shapes) at the East Scotia Ridge E2 hydrothermal vent site in the Scotia Sea. The scale bar is 10 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Neomphaloidea
Family:	Peltospiridae
Genus:	Gigantopelta Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015^[1]
Diversity^[1]
2 species