Lepetellidae is a

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of small deepwater

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s or

limpet Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning the various groups called "limpets" descended indep ...

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s in the

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Lepetelloidea Lepetelloidea is a superfamily of sea snails, small deepwater limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). (Previously this superfamily was in the or ...

in the clade

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(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). (It was in the order

Cocculiniformia The Cocculinoidea is a superfamily of deepwater limpets (marine gastropods), the only superfamily in the order Cocculinida , one of the main orders of gastropods according to the taxonomy as set up by ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The clade Coccil ...

before).

Taxonomy

This family consists of two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * Lepetellinae Dall, 1882 * Choristellinae Bouchet & Warén, 1979

Genera

Genera within the family Lepetellidae include: Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 * '' Bichoristes'' McLean, 1992 * '' Bogia'' Dantart & Luque, 1994 * '' Choristella'' Bush, 1897 * '' Lepetella'' Verrill, 1880 * '' Tecticrater'' Dall, 1956 * '' Tectisumen'' Finley, 1927

References

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