Phenacolepadidae

Phenacolepadidae
A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:	Neritoidea
Family:	Phenacolepadidae Pilsbry, 1895
Genus and species
See text
Synonyms
Scutellidae Angas, 1871 (inv.) Scutellinidae Dall, 1889 (inv.) Shinkailepadidae Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989

Phenacolepadidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.

Although the shell shape of genera in this family is that of a limpet, the family is in fact closely related to the Neritidae, the nerites.

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Phenacolepadidae include:

• Genus Cinnalapeta
  • Cinnalapeta linguaviverrae
  • Cinnalapeta pulchella
  • Cinnalapeta senta
• Genus Olgasolaris L. Beck, 1992
• Genus Phenacolepas Pilsbry, 1891 - the type genus
• Genus Plesiothyreus Cossman, 1888
• Genus Scutellina Gray, 1847
• Genus Shinkailepas Okutani et al., 1989 - a hydrothermal vent genus

References

External links

"Phenacolepadidae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).