Cryptobranchia

For the available, but invalid name of nudibranchs, see Doridoidea and Cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs.

Cryptobranchia is a genus of true deep water limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae, true limpets.

Cryptobranchia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Lepetidae
Genus:	Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851[1]
Species
See text.

This genus has become a synonym of Lepeta Gray, 1847.

Species

Species within the genus Cryptobranchia include:^[2][3]

• Cryptobranchia kuragiensis (Yokoyama, 1920) (still an accepted name by WoRMS)^[4]

References

1. v. Middendorff, A. Th. (1851). "Mollusken". Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens. Vol. 2 (1). St. Petersburg: Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. p. 183.
2. WoRMS : Cryptobranchia
3. "GBIF : Cryptobranchia". Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
4. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Cryptobranchia kuragiensis (Yokoyama, 1920). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456581 on 2019-10-22

External links

• photo of shells of Cryptobranchia kuragiensis^{[permanent dead link]} from: (in Japanese) Sasaki T., Matsubara T., Ito Y. & Amano K. (2008). "Illustrations of Cenozoic molluscan type specimens preserved in The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. Part 1. Four species of Patellogastropoda described as Acmaea". Chiribotan 39(1): 35–41.