Shinkailepas

Shinkailepas
A large number of adults and egg cases (white dots) of the hydrothermal vent species Shinkailepas kaikatensis with an arc crab on the right
Shell of Shinkailepas conspira (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Phenacolepadidae
Subfamily:	Shinkailepadinae
Genus:	Shinkailepas Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
Synonyms
OlgasolarisL. Beck, 1992

Shinkailepas is a genus of sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Phenacolepadidae. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Shinkailepas include: ^[1]

• Shinkailepas conspira L. Beck, 2023
• Shinkailepas cornuthauma X.Y. Gu, C. Chen, K.X. Gao, Y.D. Zhou & J. Sun, 2025
• Shinkailepas gigas C. Chen, H. Watanabe & M. Tsuda, 2024
• Shinkailepas kaikatensis Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989
• Shinkailepas myojinensis Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
• Shinkailepas tiarasimia X.Y. Gu, C. Chen, K.X. Gao, Y.D. Zhou & J. Sun, 2025
• Shinkailepas tollmanni (L. Beck, 1992)
• Shinkailepas tufari L. Beck, 1992

Synonyms

• Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001: ^[2] synonym of Divia briandi (Warén & Bouchet, 2001) (original combination)

References

1. Shinkailepas . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 September 2010.
2. Shinkailepas briandi Warén & Bouchet, 2001 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 May 2010.

• Okutani, T. ; Saito, H. ; Hashimoto, J. (1989). A New Neritacean Limpet from a Hydrothermal Vent Site near Ogasawara Islands,Japan. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 48(4): 223-230
• Beck, L. (1992). Two new neritacean limpets (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Neritacea: Phenacolepadidae) from active hydrothermal vents at Hydrothermal Field 1 “Wienerwald” in the Manus Back-Arc Basin (Bismarck Sea, Papua-New Guinea). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B,. 93: 259–275.

External links

• Fukumori H., Yahagi T., Warén A. & Kano Y. (2019). Amended generic classification of the marine gastropod family Phenacolepadidae: transitions from snails to limpets and shallow-water to deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185(3): 636-655