Pyropelta musaica is a species of small sea snail, a deep-water limpet, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyropeltidae.
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific
Habitat This small limpet occurs at hydrothermal vents and seeps
References
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 Steffen Kiel, Shell structures of vant and seep Gastropods, Malacologia v. 46 (1) (2004)