Lepetella

Lepetella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Lepetellidae
Genus: Lepetella
Verrill, 1880[1]
Type species
Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880

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

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:

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