Lepetidae

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Lepetidae
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Lepetidae

Gray, 1850
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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):

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

Propilidiinae

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.

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