scaly-foot gastropod
scaly-foot snail
sea pangolin
chrysomallon squamiferum latin

Perhaps you were looking for the Scaly-foot gastropod snail that employs metal in its shell .

One species of mollusc, the scaly-foot gastropod, even makes use of the iron sulfides greigite and pyrite.

The Pompeii worm was found in the 1980s, and a scaly-foot gastropod in 2001 during an expedition to the Indian Ocean's Kairei hydrothermal vent field.

Chrysomallon squamiferum, common name the scaly-foot gastropod, is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Peltospiridae.

The snail, Crysomallon squamiferum, is known as the scaly-foot gastropod, and lives deep beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean near a group of hydrothermal vents.

The scaly-foot snail is the only known animal species that uses iron sulphides as part of its structure.

The shell of the scaly-foot snail can dissipate an amount of energy that would cause weaker shells to break, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in a release Tuesday.

Scientists from Southampton University filmed a variety of creatures including yeti crabs, scaly-foot snails and sea cucumbers, some of which may be new species as they are not found in neighbouring Atlantic and Central Indian Ocean ridge systems.

Chrysomallon squamiferum, common name the scaly-foot gastropod, is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Peltospiridae.