Shinkailepas

Shinkailepas is a genus of sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Phenacolepadidae.^[1]

Shinkailepas
A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right
Shell of Shinkailepas conspira (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Phenacolepadidae
Subfamily:	Shinkailepadinae
Genus:	Shinkailepas Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989

Species

Species within the genus Shinkailepas include:^[1]

• Shinkailepas conspira L. Beck, 2023
• Shinkailepas kaikatensis Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
• Shinkailepas myojinensis Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
• Shinkailepas tollmanni (L. Beck, 1992)
• Shinkailepas tufari L. Beck, 1992

Synonyms

• Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001:^[2] synonym of Divia briandi (Warén & Bouchet, 2001) (original combination)