Lepetidae

Family of gastropods

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

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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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Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura)

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Pectinodontidae

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Lepetidae

Nacellidae

Patellidae

Eoacmaeidae

## Genera

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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

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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

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* "Reproduction and development of the limpet Limalepeta lima (Dall, 1918) (Gastropoda: Lepetidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan". doi:10.1134/S1063074006040110

Taxon identifiers

Lepetidae|

* Wikidata: Q2865799
* Wikispecies: Lepetidae
* AFD: Lepetidae
* BOLD: 103749
* CoL: 7NJ9K
* EoL: 2591
* GBIF: 6554
* iNaturalist: 245301
* IRMNG: 104744
* ITIS: 69757
* NBN: NHMSYS0021056377
* NCBI: 72688
* NZOR: 3150df22-22f7-42f6-a44c-4ca37d366817
* Open Tree of Life: 903802
* Paleobiology Database: 60819
* WoRMS: 1733

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