Lepetidae
| Lepetidae | |
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| Iothia fulva shell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade 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
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
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
- Notocrater (Suter, 1908)
Propilidiinae
- Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849
- Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987
References
- ↑ 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
- "Reproduction and development of the limpet Limalepeta lima (Dall, 1918) (Gastropoda: Lepetidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan". doi:10.1134/S1063074006040110
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