Cryptobranchia

Cryptobranchia
For the available, but invalid name of nudibranchs, see Doridoidea and Cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs.


Cryptobranchia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Lepetidae
Genus: Cryptobranchia
Middendorff, 1851[1]
Species

See text.

Cryptobranchia is a genus of true deep water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetidae, true limpets.

Species

Species within the genus Cryptobranchia include: [2] [3]

  • Cryptobranchia alba Dall, 1869 (white blind limpet)
  • Cryptobranchia concentrica (Middendorff, 1851) (ringed blind limpet)
  • Cryptobranchia instabilis
  • Cryptobranchia kuragiensis (Yokoyama, 1920)

References

  1. ^ von Middendorff A. (1851). Reise Sibir. 2(1): 183.
  2. ^ WoRMS : Cryptobranchia
  3. ^ GBIF : Cryptobranchia

External links

  • photo of shells of Cryptobranchia kuragiensis from: (Japanese) Sasaki T., Matsubara T., Ito Y. & Amano K. (2008). "Illustrations of Cenozoic molluscan type specimens preserved in The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. Part 1. Four species of Patellogastropoda described as Acmaea". Chiribotan 39(1): 35-41.
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