Lepetella

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

Lepetella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Lepetellidae
Subfamily:	Lepetellinae
Genus:	Lepetella Verrill, 1880[1]
Type species
Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880

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:

• Lepetella barrajoni Dantart & Luque, 1994^[4]
• Lepetella clypidellaeformis (Suter, 1908)
• Lepetella espinosae Dantart & Luque, 1994^[5]
• Lepetella ionica F. Nordsieck, 1973
• Lepetella laterocompressa (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)^[6]
• † Lepetella parallela (Laws, 1950)
• Lepetella postapicula Dell, 1990^[7]
• Lepetella sierrai Dantart & Luque, 1994^[8]
• Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880^[9]