• Source: Pyropelta corymba

    • 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.

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