''Lepetodrilus'' 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 ...

of small, deep-sea

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 ...

hydrothermal vent Hydrothermal vents are fissures on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hot ...

limpet Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical gastropod shell, shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. This general category of conical shell is known as "patelliform" (dish-shaped). Existing within the class Gastropoda, ...

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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the

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Lepetodrilidae Lepetodrilidae is a family of small, deep-sea sea snails, hydrothermal vent limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Le ...

. A few species have been found in

methane Methane ( , ) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms). It is a group-14 hydride, the simplest alkane, and the main constituent of natural gas. The abundance of methane on Earth makes ...

and

sulfide Sulfide (also sulphide in British English) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S2− or a compound containing one or more S2− ions. Solutions of sulfide salts are corrosive. ''Sulfide'' also refers to large families o ...

seeps.

Species

Species within the genus ''Lepetodrilus'' include: * '' Lepetodrilus atlanticus'' Warén & Bouchet, 2001 * '' Lepetodrilus concentricus'' Linse, Roterman & C. Chen, 2019 * '' Lepetodrilus corrugatus'' McLean, 1993 * '' Lepetodrilus cristatus'' McLean, 1988 * '' Lepetodrilus elevatus'' McLean, 1988 * ''

Lepetodrilus fijiensis ''Lepetodrilus'' is a genus of small, deep-sea sea snails, hydrothermal vent limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Lepetodrilidae. A few species have been found in methane and sulfide seeps. Species Species within t ...

'' L. Beck, 2023 * '' Lepetodrilus fucensis'' McLean, 1988 * '' Lepetodrilus galriftensis'' McLean, 1988 * '' Lepetodrilus gordensis'' Johnson, Young, Jones, Waren & Vrijenhoek, 2006 * '' Lepetodrilus guaymasensis'' McLean, 1988 * '' Lepetodrilus japonicus'' Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 * '' Lepetodrilus nux'' Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 * '' Lepetodrilus ovalis'' McLean, 1988 * '' Lepetodrilus pustulosus'' McLean, 1988 * '' Lepetodrilus schrolli'' Beck, 1993 * '' Lepetodrilus shannonae'' Warén & Bouchet, 2009 * '' Lepetodrilus tevnianus'' McLean, 1991 * ''Lepetodrilus'' sp. East Scotia Ridge - from

s in

Scotia Sea The Scotia Sea is a sea located at the northern edge of the Southern Ocean at its boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge and is ...

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 Biology'' ''10''(1): e1001234. .

Cladogram

This

cladogram A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ...

shows the phylogenic relationships within ''Lepetodrilus'', based on sequences of cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes based on

Bayesian inference Bayesian inference ( or ) is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to calculate a probability of a hypothesis, given prior evidence, and update it as more information becomes available. Fundamentally, Bayesian infer ...

References

External links

Lepetodrilidae Gastropod genera {{Lepetodrilidae-stub