Lepetodrilus

<i>Lepetodrilus</i>

Lepetodrilus

Genus of gastropods


Lepetodrilus is a genus of small, deep-sea sea snails, hydrothermal vent limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetodrilidae.[3]

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A few species have been found in methane and sulfide seeps.[4]

Species

Species within the genus Lepetodrilus include:

Cladogram

This cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships within Lepetodrilus, based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes based on Bayesian inference:[20]

Lepetodrilus

References

  1. McLean J. H. (1988). "New archaeogastropod limpets from hydrothermal vents; Superfamily Lepetodrilacea. I. Systematic descriptions". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 319(1192): 1-31. page 6. JSTOR.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=180907 on 2012-02-04
  3. Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 April 2010.
  4. Shannon B. Johnson, Curtis R. Young, William J. Jones, Anders Warén and Robert C. Vrijenhoek, Migration, Isolation, and Speciation of Hydrothermal Vent Limpets (Gastropoda; Lepetodrilidae) across the Blanco Transform Fault, Biological Bulletin, Vol. 210, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), pp. 140-157
  5. Rogers A.D., Tyler P.A., Connelly D.P., Copley J.T., James R., Larter R.D., Linse K., Mills R.A., Garabato A.N., Pancost R.D., Pearce D.A., Polunin N.V., German C.R., Shank T., Boersch-Supan P.H., Alker B.J., Aquilina A., Bennett S.A., Clarke A., Dinley R.J., Graham A.G., Green D.R., Hawkes J.A., Hepburn L., Hilario A., Huvenne V.A., Marsh L., Ramirez-Llodra E., Reid W.D., Roterman C.N., Sweeting C.J., Thatje S. & Zwirglmaier K. (2012). "The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography". PLoS Biology 10(1): e1001234. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234.



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