- Crepipatella
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Crepipatella Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: 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:
- Crepipatella capensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832-33)
- Crepipatella lingulata (Gould, 1846)
- Crepipatella dorsata (Broderip, 1834)
- Crepipatella fecunda (Gallardo, 1979)
- Crepipatella dilatata (Lamarck, 1822)
References
- ^ Lesson R. P. (1831). Voy. "Coquille," Zool. 2(1): 389.
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