Lepetidae

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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.

Taxonomy

This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Lepetinae Gray, 1850

Propilidiinae Thiele, 1891

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda based on molecular phylogeny research by Nakano & Ozawa (2007):

Genera in the family Lepetidae include:

Lepetinae

Bathylepeta Moskalay, 1977

Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851

Iothia Forbes, 1849

Lepeta J. E. Gray, 1842

Limalepeta Moskalev, 1978

Maoricrater Dell, 1956

Notocrater (Suter, 1908)

Propilidiinae

Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849

Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987

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