Phenacolepadidae | |
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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 ![]() | |
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 | |
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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).
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.