Pyropelta musaica
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Pyropelta musaica is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.{{WRMS species|450016|Pyropelta musaica McLean & Haszprunar, 1987||27 March 2010}}
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific
Habitat
This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps
References
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- 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
- Warén, A. & Bouchet, P. (2001) Gastropoda and Monoplacophora from hydrothermal vents and seeps; new taxa and records. The Veliger, 44, 116–231.
External links
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28112741#page/175/mode/1up Steffen Kiel, Shell structures of vant and seep Gastropods, Malacologia v. 46 (1) (2004)]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1987
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