Gigantopelta

Gigantopelta is a genus of deep sea snails from hydrothermal vents, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Peltospiridae.^[1]

Gigantopelta
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
Subclass:	Neomphaliones
Order:	Neomphalida
Family:	Peltospiridae
Genus:	Gigantopelta Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015[1]
Diversity[1]
2 species

Species

• Gigantopelta aegis Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015^[1]
• Gigantopelta chessoia Chen, Linse, Roterman, Copley & Rogers, 2015^[1]