Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Lepetidae Higher classification Lottioidea | Superfamily Lottioidea Phylum Mollusca Rank Family | |
 | ||
Lower classifications Notocrater, Maoricrater explorata | ||
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
Contents
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):
Genera
Genera in the family Lepetidae include:
Lepetinae
Propilidiinae
References
Lepetidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA