Lepetidae

Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.

Lepetidae
Iothia fulva shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade 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]

Patellogastropoda
 
 
 

Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura)

 
 
 
 

Pectinodontidae

 
 

Lepetidae

 
 
 

Nacellidae

 
 
 
 

Patellidae

 
 
 

Eoacmaeidae

 
 

Genera

Genera in the family Lepetidae include:

Lepetinae

Propilidiinae

  • Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849
  • Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987
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References
  1. 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.
  • "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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