Lepetidae

Taxobox
name = Lepetidae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Patellogastropoda
subordo = Nacellina
superfamilia = Lottioidea
familia = Lepetidae
familia_authority = Gray, 1850
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Patellogastropoda.

The shells are small and white, without colour patterns, smooth or sculptured. The animal is without a gill or gill cordon, having just a cilia-lined groove encircling the mantle. They are found in deep water, Arctic to the Antarctic.

Genera

* "Bathylepeta" Moskalay, 1977
* "Cryptobranchia" Middendorff, 1851
* "Iothia" Forbes, 1849
* "Lepeta" J. E. Gray, 1842
* "Limalepta" Moskalev, 1978
* "Maoricrater" Dell, 1956
* "Notocrater" (Suter, 1908)
* "Propilidium" Forbes and Hanley, 1849
* "Sagamilepeta" Okutani, 1987

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1