Lepetidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of sea snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s or small, deep-water true limpet

Limpet

Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...

s, marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 gastropod molluscs in the clade

Clade

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 Patellogastropoda

Patellogastropoda

Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called Docoglossa, is a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, seen either as a clade or as a taxonomic order.-Taxonomy:Patellogastropoda was proposed by David R...

 the true limpets.

Taxonomy

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

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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• Lepetinae Gray, 1850
• Propilidiinae Thiele
  Johannes Thiele
  Johannes Thiele, full name Karl Hermann Johannes Thiele was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde is a standard work...
  
  , 1891

A cladogram

Cladogram

A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...

 showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda based on molecular phylogeny

Molecular phylogeny

Molecular phylogenetics is the analysis of hereditary molecular differences, mainly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a phylogenetic tree...

 research by Nakano & Ozawa (2007):

Genera

Genera in the family Lepetidae include:

Lepetinae

• Bathylepeta
  Bathylepeta
  Bathylepeta is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae.-Species:Species within the genus Bathylepeta include:* Bathylepeta linseae Schwabe, 2006...
  
  Moskalay, 1977
• Cryptobranchia
  Cryptobranchia
  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: * Cryptobranchia alba Dall, 1869...
  
  Middendorff, 1851
• Iothia
  Iothia
  Iothia is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae.-Species:Species within the genus Iothia include:* Iothia coppingeri * Iothia fulva...
  
  Forbes, 1849
• Lepeta
  Lepeta
  Lepeta is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae.-Species:Species within the genus Lepeta include:* Lepeta antarctica Smith, 1907* Lepeta caeca...
  
  J. E. Gray, 1842
• Limalepeta Moskalev, 1978
• Maoricrater
  Maoricrater
  Maoricrater is a genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetidae, the true limpets. This genus is endemic to New Zealand.-Species:Species within the genus Maoricrater include:...
  
  Dell
  Richard Dell
  Dr Richard Kenneth Dell was a New Zealand malacologist. He was born in Auckland. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitemata Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard...
  
  , 1956
• Notocrater
  Notocrater
  Notocrater is a genus of deep-water true true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetidae, one of the families of true limpets.-Species:Species within the genus Notocrater include:* Notocrater craticulata...
  
  (Suter
  Henry Suter
  Henry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
  
  , 1908)

Propilidiinae

• Propilidium
  Propilidium
  Propilidium is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae.-Species:Species within the genus Propilidium include:* Propilidium curumim Leal & Simone , 1998* Propilidium elegans A. E...
  
  Forbes and Hanley, 1849
• Sagamilepeta Okutani, 1987

External links

• "Reproduction and development of the limpet Limalepeta lima (Dall, 1918) (Gastropoda: Lepetidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan".