Phenacolepadidae
Phenacolepadidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha.
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
