| Lepetodrilus | |
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| Numerous individuals of the hydrothermal vent limpet Lepetodrilus sp. partially cover the shells of Gigantopelta chessoia on the East Scotia Ridge site E2 in the Scotia Sea, South Atlantic Ocean. Scale bar 10 cm. | |
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| Shell of Lepetodrilus fijiensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Lepetodrilidae |
| Genus: | Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lepetodrilus pustulosus McLean, 1988
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| Diversity[2] | |
| At least 15 described species | |
Lepetodrilus is a genus of small, deep-sea sea snails, hydrothermal vent limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetodrilidae.[3]
A few species have been found in methane and sulfide seeps.[4]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
- ^ 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