Lepetidae

Lepetidae
Iothia fulva shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	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	Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura) Pectinodontidae Lepetidae Nacellidae Patellidae Eoacmaeidae

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

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.

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