Cryptobranchia
| Cryptobranchia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Lepetidae |
| Genus: | Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851[1] |
| Species | |
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Cryptobranchia is a genus of true deep water limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lepetidae, true limpets.
Species
Species within the genus Cryptobranchia include:[2][3]
- Cryptobranchia alba Dall, 1869 (white blind limpet)
- Cryptobranchia concentrica (Middendorff, 1851) (ringed blind limpet)
- Cryptobranchia instabilis
- Cryptobranchia kuragiensis (Yokoyama, 1920)
References
- ↑ v. Middendorff, A. Th. (1851). "Mollusken". Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens. 2 (1). St. Petersburg: Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. p. 183.
- ↑ WoRMS : Cryptobranchia
- ↑ GBIF : Cryptobranchia
External links
- photo of shells of Cryptobranchia kuragiensis from: (in Japanese) Sasaki T., Matsubara T., Ito Y. & Amano K. (2008). "Illustrations of Cenozoic molluscan type specimens preserved in The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. Part 1. Four species of Patellogastropoda described as Acmaea". Chiribotan 39(1): 35-41.
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