Lepetella

Lepetella is a genus of very small deep-sea sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetellidae.^[2]

Lepetella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Lepetellidae
Subfamily:	Lepetellinae
Genus:	Lepetella Verrill, 1880[1]
Type species
Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880

Description

The small shell is smooth, oval or oblong, limpet-shaped or conical. It has a simple sub-central apex that isn't spiral. The animal resembles Lepeta Gray, 1847, but has distinct eyes. It has a taenioglossan radula with seven regular rows of teeth.^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Lepetella include:

• Lepetella barrajoni Dantart & Luque, 1994^[4]
• Lepetella clypidellaeformis (Suter, 1908)
• Lepetella espinosae Dantart & Luque, 1994^[5]
• Lepetella ionica F. Nordsieck, 1973
• Lepetella laterocompressa (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)^[6]
• † Lepetella parallela (Laws, 1950)
• Lepetella postapicula Dell, 1990^[7]
• Lepetella sierrai Dantart & Luque, 1994^[8]
• Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880^[9]

References

1. Verrill A. E. (1880). Amer. J. Sci. (3)20: 391, 396.
2. Lepetella Verrill, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 February 2013.
3. Verrill, A. E. 1880. Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England, The American journal of science, ser. 3 vol. 20
4. Lepetella barrajoni Dantart & Luque, 1994. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
5. Lepetella espinosae Dantart & Luque, 1994. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
6. Lepetella laterocompressa (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
7. Lepetella postapicula Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
8. Lepetella sierrai Dantart & Luque, 1994. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
9. Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Dantart L. & Luque A. A. (1994). Cocculiniformia and Lepetidae (Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda) from Iberian waters. Journal of Molluscan Studies 60 (3): 277-313
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp

External links

• Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114