Crepipatella

Crepipatella
Crepipatella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Calyptraeoidea
Family: Calyptraeidae
Genus: Crepipatella
Lesson, 1831[1]

Crepipatella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup-and-saucer snails.

The snails in this genus were formerly all thought to belong to the genus Crepidula, but DNA sequence data show that they are a separate genus.

Species

Species within the genus Crepipatella include:

References

  1. ^ Lesson R. P. (1831). Voy. "Coquille," Zool. 2(1): 389.

Further reading