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

• 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

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