Lepetelloidea
Lepetelloidea is a superfamily of sea snails, small deepwater limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Description
Species in this superfamily have undivided shell muscles . They possess secondary gill leaflets or their gills are reduced. Their radula contains a well-developed rachidian tooth.The soft body lacks subpallial. The ciliated gonoducts contain no glands.
Families
Families within the superfamily Lepetelloidea include:- Addisoniidae
- Bathyphytophilidae
- Caymanabyssiidae
- Cocculinellidae
- Lepetellidae Dall, 1881
- * Choristellinae - in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda according to Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, the group of species previously known as the family Choristellidae was reranked as Choristellinae, a subfamily of Lepetellidae.
- Osteopeltidae
- Pseudococculinidae
- Pyropeltidae