Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Patellogastropoda
Superfamilia: Lottioidea
Familia: Lepetidae
Genera (7): Bathylepeta – Iothia – Lepeta – Limalepeta – Maoricrater – Propilidium – Sagamilepeta
Name
Lepetidae Gray, 1850
Synonyms
Propilidiidae
References
Links
Lepetidae in the World Register of Marine Species
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]
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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
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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