Pyropelta oluae

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Pyropelta oluae is a small deep-water sea snail, a limpet-like marine snail in the family Pyropeltidae. It lives at methane seeps in deep water off the Congo River.

Taxonomy:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Subclass: Vetigastropoda
- Order: Lepetellida
- Family: Pyropeltidae
- Genus: Pyropelta
- Species: P. oluae
- Binomial name: Pyropelta oluae
- Described by Warén & Bouchet in 2009