Pyropelta
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Pyropelta is a genus
of small sea snail
s, deep-water limpet
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Pyropeltidae
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The name Pyropelta is from the Greek
; it means "fire limpet" because these small deepwater limpets live near hot hydrothermal vents and similar habitat.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, deep-water limpet
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Pyropeltidae
Pyropeltidae
Pyropeltidae is a family of gastropods in the clade Vetigastropoda .This family has no subfamilies.- Genera :Genera in the family Pyropeltidae include:...
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The name Pyropelta is from the Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
; it means "fire limpet" because these small deepwater limpets live near hot hydrothermal vents and similar habitat.
Species
Species within the genus Pyropelta include:- Pyropelta bohleiPyropelta bohleiPyropelta bohlei is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyropeltidae....
- Pyropelta corymbaPyropelta corymbaPyropelta corymba is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyropeltidae...
- Pyropelta musaicaPyropelta musaicaPyropelta musaica is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae....
- Pyropelta oluaePyropelta oluaePyropelta 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...
- Pyropelta ryukyuensisPyropelta ryukyuensisPyropelta ryukyuensis is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.- Distribution :This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents in the Okinawa Trough, Japan...
- Pyropelta sibuetaePyropelta sibuetaePyropelta sibuetae is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae....
- Pyropelta yamatoPyropelta yamatoPyropelta yamato is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae....