Phenacolepadidae

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
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Superfamily:	Neritoidea
Family:	Phenacolepadidae Pilsbry, 1895
Genera
See text
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

Genera and species within the family Phenacolepadidae include:

• Subfamily Phenacolepadinae Pilsbry, 1895
  • Hyalopatina Dall, 1889
  • Magadis Melvill & Standen, 1899
  • Plesiothyreus Cossman, 1888
  • Zacalantica Iredale, 1929
• Subfamily Shinkailepadinae Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
  • Divia Fukumori, Yahagi, Warén & Kano, 2019
  • Shinkailepas Okutani et al., 1989 - a hydrothermal vent genus
  • Thalassonerita Moroni, 1966

Genera brought into synonymy

• Cinnalapeta Iredale, 1929: synonym of Plesiothyreus Cossmann, 1888
• Olgasolaris L. Beck, 1992: synonym of Shinkailepas Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
• Phenacolepas Pilsbry, 1891: synonym of Plesiothyreus Cossmann, 1888
• Scutellina Gray, 1847: synonym of Plesiothyreus Cossmann, 1888