Lepetodrilus

Lepetodrilus
Numerous individuals of the hydrothermal vent limpet Lepetodrilus sp. partially cover the shells of Gigantopelta chessoia on the East Scotia Ridge site E2 in the Scotia Sea, South Atlantic Ocean. Scale bar 10 cm.
Shell of Lepetodrilus fijiensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Superfamily:	Lepetodriloidea
Family:	Lepetodrilidae
Genus:	Lepetodrilus McLean, 1988 [1]
Type species
Lepetodrilus pustulosus McLean, 1988
Diversity [2]
At least 15 described species

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

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

Species

Species within the genus Lepetodrilus include:

• Lepetodrilus atlanticus Warén & Bouchet, 2001 ^[5]
• Lepetodrilus concentricus Linse, Roterman & C. Chen, 2019
• Lepetodrilus corrugatus McLean, 1993 ^[6]
• Lepetodrilus cristatus McLean, 1988 ^[7]
• Lepetodrilus elevatus McLean, 1988 ^[8]
• Lepetodrilus fijiensis L. Beck, 2023
• Lepetodrilus fucensis McLean, 1988 ^[9]
• Lepetodrilus galriftensis McLean, 1988 ^[10]
• Lepetodrilus gordensis Johnson, Young, Jones, Waren & Vrijenhoek, 2006 ^[11]
• Lepetodrilus guaymasensis McLean, 1988 ^[12]
• Lepetodrilus japonicus Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 ^[13]
• Lepetodrilus nux Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 ^[14]
• Lepetodrilus ovalis McLean, 1988 ^[15]
• Lepetodrilus pustulosus McLean, 1988 ^[16]
• Lepetodrilus schrolli Beck, 1993 ^[17]
• Lepetodrilus shannonae Warén & Bouchet, 2009 ^[18]
• Lepetodrilus tevnianus McLean, 1991 ^[19]
• Lepetodrilus sp. East Scotia Ridge - from hydrothermal vents in Scotia Sea ^[20]

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	Lepetodrilus gordensis Lepetodrilus fucensis Lepetodrilus elevatus Lepetodrilus tevnianus Lepetodrilus cristatus Lepetodrilus ovalis Lepetodrilus pustulosus Lepetodrilus atlanticus Lepetodrilus sp. East Scotia Ridge Lepetodrilus CIR1 Lepetodrilus CIR2 Lepetodrilus nux Lepetodrilus schrolli

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. Lepetodrilus atlanticus Warén & Bouchet, 2001 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
6. Lepetodrilus corrugatus McLean, 1993 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
7. Lepetodrilus cristatus McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
8. Lepetodrilus elevatus McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
9. Lepetodrilus fucensis McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
10. Lepetodrilus galriftensis McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
11. Lepetodrilus gordensis Johnson, Young, Jones, Waren & Vrijenhoek, 2006 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
12. Lepetodrilus guaymasensis McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
13. Lepetodrilus japonicus Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
14. Lepetodrilus nux Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
15. Lepetodrilus ovalis McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
16. Lepetodrilus pustulosus McLean, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
17. Lepetodrilus schrolli Beck, 1993 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
18. Lepetodrilus shannonae Warén & Bouchet, 2009 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
19. Lepetodrilus tevnianus McLean, 1991 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 11 April 2010.
20. 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 Biology10(1): e1001234. doi : 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234.