Lepetellidae
Sign in to saveLepetellidae is a taxonomic family of small deepwater sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lepetelloidea in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). (It was in the order Cocculiniformia before).
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLepetellida
- FamilyLepetellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 75
- Family
- Lepetellidae
- Collections
- USNM, TMAG, SBMNH, MNHN, FWRI
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Chile, United States, Hong Kong, Italy, Nouvelle-Caledonie
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lepetellidae is a taxonomic family of small deepwater sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lepetelloidea in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). (It was in the order Cocculiniformia 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
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