Phenacolepadidae
Phenacolepadidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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| A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right | |
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| Family: | Phenacolepadidae Pilsbry, 1895 |
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This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
Although the shell shape of genera in this family is that of a limpet, the family is in fact closely related to the Neritidae, the nerites.
Genera and species
Genera and species within the family Phenacolepadidae include:
- Subfamily Phenacolepadinae Pilsbry, 1895
- Hyalopatina Dall, 1889
- Magadis Melvill & Standen, 1899
- Plesiothyreus Cossman, 1888
- Zacalantica Iredale, 1929
- Subfamily Shinkailepadinae Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
- Divia Fukumori, Yahagi, Warén & Kano, 2019
- Shinkailepas Okutani et al., 1989 - a hydrothermal vent genus
- Thalassonerita Moroni, 1966
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Cinnalapeta Iredale, 1929: synonym of Plesiothyreus Cossmann, 1888
- Olgasolaris L. Beck, 1992: synonym of Shinkailepas Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
- Phenacolepas Pilsbry, 1891: synonym of Plesiothyreus Cossmann, 1888
- Scutellina Gray, 1847: synonym of Plesiothyreus Cossmann, 1888
References
- Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
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