Gigantopelta
| Gigantopelta | |
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| View of a number of Gigantopelta chessoia (the brown snails) partially covered by limpets Lepetodrilus sp. (the small yellow-greenish oval shapes) at the East Scotia Ridge E2 hydrothermal vent site in the Scotia Sea. The scale bar is 10 cm. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Neomphaloidea |
| Family: | Peltospiridae |
| Genus: |
Gigantopelta Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015 |
| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
Gigantopelta is a genus of deep sea snails from hydrothermal vents, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Peltospiridae.
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