Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyropeltidae.
The name Pyropelta is from the 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 bohlei <small>L. Beck, 1996</small>
- Pyropelta corymba <small>McLean & Haszprunar, 1987</small>
- Pyropelta craigsmithi <small>(J. H. McLean, 1992)</small>
- Pyropelta elongata <small>S.Q. Zhang & S.P. Zhang, 2017</small>
- Pyropelta musaica <small>McLean & Haszprunar, 1987</small>
- Pyropelta oluae <small>Warén & Bouchet, 2009</small>
- Pyropelta ovalis <small>L. Beck, 2023</small>
- Pyropelta ryukyuensis <small>Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2008</small>
- â Pyropelta seca <small>Kiel, Hybertsen, HyÃ
¾ný & Klompmaker, 2019</small>
- Pyropelta sibuetae <small>Warén & Bouchet, 2009</small>
- Pyropelta wakefieldi <small>McLean, 1992</small>
- Pyropelta yamato <small>Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003</small>
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