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Lepetelloidea

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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 order Cocculiniformia.)

Species

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Superfamily

  1. PhylumMollusca
  2. ClassGastropoda
  3. OrderLepetellida
Habitatmarine, brackish

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Parent taxon
Lepetellida
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taxon name
Lepetelloidea
taxon rank
superfamily
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Lepetelloidea
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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 order Cocculiniformia.)

==Description== Species in this superfamily have undivided shell muscles (except Lepetellidae). They possess secondary gill leaflets or their gills are reduced. Their radula contains a well-developed rachidian tooth.

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