Lepetidae
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Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Patellogastropoda.
The shells are small and white, without colour patterns, smooth or decussate sculptured. The animal is without a gill or gill cordon, having just a cilia-lined pallial groove encircling the mantle. They are found in deep water, Arctic to the Antarctic.
[edit] Genera
- Bathylepeta Moskalay, 1977
- Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851
- Iothia Forbes, 1849
- Lepeta J. E. Gray, 1842
- Limalepta Moskalev, 1978
- Maoricrater Dell, 1956
- Notocrater (Suter, 1908)
- Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849
- Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987
[edit] References
- Lepetidae (TSN 69757). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
