Lepetodrilus

Lepetodrilus
Numerous individuals of the hydrothermal vent limpet Lepetodrilus sp. partially cover the shells of the undescribed peltospiroid gastropods Peltospiroidea n. sp. on the East Scotia Ridge site E2 in the Scotia Sea, South Atlantic Ocean. Scale bar 10 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Lepetodriloidea
Family: Lepetodrilidae
Genus: Lepetodrilus
McLean, 1988[1]
Diversity[2]
At least 15 described species

Lepetodrilus is a genus of small, deep-sea sea snails, hydrothermal vent limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetodrilidae.[3]

A few species have been found in methane and sulfide seeps. [4]

Species

Species within the genus Lepetodrilus include:

Cladogram

This cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships within Lepetodrilus, based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes based on Bayesian inference:[20]

Lepetodrilus





Lepetodrilus gordensis



Lepetodrilus fucensis




Lepetodrilus elevatus




Lepetodrilus tevnianus




Lepetodrilus cristatus








Lepetodrilus ovalis



Lepetodrilus pustulosus






Lepetodrilus atlanticus



Lepetodrilus sp. East Scotia Ridge




Lepetodrilus CIR1





Lepetodrilus CIR2





Lepetodrilus nux



Lepetodrilus schrolli





References

  1. McLean J. H. (1988). "New archaeogastropod limpets from hydrothermal vents; Superfamily Lepetodrilacea. I. Systematic descriptions". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 319(1192): 1-31. page 6. JSTOR.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180907 on 2012-02-04
  3. Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  4. Shannon B. Johnson, Curtis R. Young, William J. Jones, Anders Warén and Robert C. Vrijenhoek, Migration, Isolation, and Speciation of Hydrothermal Vent Limpets (Gastropoda; Lepetodrilidae) across the Blanco Transform Fault, Biological Bulletin, Vol. 210, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), pp. 140-157
  5. Lepetodrilus atlanticus Warén & Bouchet, 2001.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  6. Lepetodrilus corrugatus McLean, 1993.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  7. Lepetodrilus cristatus McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  8. Lepetodrilus elevatus McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  9. Lepetodrilus fucensis McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  10. Lepetodrilus galriftensis McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  11. Lepetodrilus gordensis Johnson, Young, Jones, Waren & Vrijenhoek, 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  12. Lepetodrilus guaymasensis McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  13. Lepetodrilus japonicus Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  14. Lepetodrilus nux Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  15. Lepetodrilus ovalis McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  16. Lepetodrilus pustulosus McLean, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  17. Lepetodrilus schrolli Beck, 1993.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  18. Lepetodrilus shannonae Warén & Bouchet, 2009.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  19. Lepetodrilus tevnianus McLean, 1991.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  20. 1 2 Rogers A.D., Tyler P.A., Connelly D.P., Copley J.T., James R., Larter R.D., Linse K., Mills R.A., Garabato A.N., Pancost R.D., Pearce D.A., Polunin N.V., German C.R., Shank T., Boersch-Supan P.H., Alker B.J., Aquilina A., Bennett S.A., Clarke A., Dinley R.J., Graham A.G., Green D.R., Hawkes J.A., Hepburn L., Hilario A., Huvenne V.A., Marsh L., Ramirez-Llodra E., Reid W.D., Roterman C.N., Sweeting C.J., Thatje S. & Zwirglmaier K. (2012). "The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography". PLoS Biology 10(1): e1001234. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234.

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