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):Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99. .
Genera 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
Propilidiinae Propilidium Forbes and Hanley, 1849 Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987
References
External links "Reproduction and development of the limpet Limalepeta lima (Dall, 1918) (Gastropoda: Lepetidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan".