Lepetidae
Family of gastropods
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Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
| Lepetidae | |
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| Iothia fulva shell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Lepetidae Gray, 1850 |
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]
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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
- Propilidiinae
- Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849
- Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987