Pyropelta

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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|image = Pyropelta ovalis 001.jpg

|image_caption = Shell of Pyropelta ovalis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)

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|taxon = Pyropelta

|authority = McLean & Haszprunar, 1987McLean J. H. & Haszprunar (1987). Veliger 30(2): 197.

|type_species = Pyropelta musaica

|type_species_authority = J. H. McLean & Haszprunar, 1987

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Pyropelta is a genus of small sea snails, deep-water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyropeltidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pyropelta J. H. McLean & Haszprunar, 1987. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391493 on 2022-03-20

The name Pyropelta is from the Greek; it means "fire limpet" because these small deepwater limpets live near hot hydrothermal vents and similar habitat.