Lepetidae
Appearance
Lepetidae | |
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Iothia fulva shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
Family: | Lepetidae Gray, 1850 |
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
Taxonomy
[edit]This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Lepetinae Gray, 1850
- Propilidiinae Thiele, 1891
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda based on molecular phylogeny research by Nakano & Ozawa (2007):[1]
Patellogastropoda |
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Genera
[edit]Genera in the family Lepetidae include:
- Lepetinae
- Bathylepeta Moskalay, 1977
- Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851
- Iothia Forbes, 1849
- Lepeta J. E. Gray, 1842
- Limalepeta Moskalev, 1978
- Maoricrater Dell, 1956
- Propilidiinae
- Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849
- Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987
References
[edit]- ^ Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99. doi:10.1093/mollus/eym001.
External links
[edit]- "Reproduction and development of the limpet Limalepeta lima (Dall, 1918) (Gastropoda: Lepetidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan". doi:10.1134/S1063074006040110