Pyropelta corymba

Pyropelta corymba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Pyropeltidae
Genus:	Pyropelta
Species:	P. corymba
Binomial name
Pyropelta corymba McLean & Haszprunar, 1987

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of California, Western Mexico.

Habitat

This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps

References

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