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):
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
External links
"Reproduction and development of the limpet Limalepeta lima (Dall, 1918) (Gastropoda: Lepetidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan".