Phenacolepadidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Phenacolepadidae
A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Phenacolepadidae
Pilsbry, 1895
Genus and species

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Synonyms
  • Scutellidae Angas, 1871 (inv.)
  • Scutellinidae Dall, 1889 (inv.)
  • Shinkailepadidae Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989

This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.

Although the shell shape of genera in this family is that of a limpet, the family is in fact closely related to the Neritidae, the nerites.

Genera and species

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Genera and species within the family Phenacolepadidae include:

Genera brought into synonymy

References

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  • Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
  • Chen C. & Sigwart J.D. , 2023. The lost vent gastropod species of Lothar A. Beck. Zootaxa 5270(3): 401-436
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"Phenacolepadidae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).