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''Eulepetopsis'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
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true limpet The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda is ...
s, marine
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
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family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
Neolepetopsidae Neolepetopsidae is a family (biology), family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxono ...
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Species

Species within the genus ''Eulepetopsis'' include: * ''
Eulepetopsis vitrea ''Eulepetopsis vitrea'' is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neolepetopsidae, one of the families of true limpets. ''Eulepetopsis vitrea'' is the only species in the genus ''Eulepetopsis''. Descr ...
'' McLean, 1990


References

Neolepetopsidae Monotypic gastropod genera {{Neolepetopsidae-stub