Biology:Pyropelta musaica

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Pyropelta musaica
Scientific classification edit
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.[1]

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

  • 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

Wikidata ☰ Q7263681 entry