Pyropelta corymba

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Pyropelta corymba is a small deep-water sea snail, a limpet in the family Pyropeltidae. It lives near hydrothermal vents and seeps in the Gulf of California, off western Mexico. The species was described in 1987 by McLean and Haszprunar and has the binomial name Pyropelta corymba.

Classification:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Subclass: Vetigastropoda
- Order: Lepetellida
- Family: Pyropeltidae
- Genus: Pyropelta
- Species: Pyropelta corymba