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Cryptobranchia

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Cryptobranchia
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Cryptobranchia

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Cryptobranchia is a genus of true deep water limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae, true limpets.

This genus has become a synonym of Lepeta Gray, 1847.

Species

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Species within the genus Cryptobranchia include:[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ v. Middendorff, A. Th. (1851). "Mollusken". Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens. Vol. 2 (1). St. Petersburg: Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. p. 183.
  2. ^ WoRMS : Cryptobranchia
  3. ^ "GBIF : Cryptobranchia". Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
  4. ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Cryptobranchia kuragiensis (Yokoyama, 1920). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456581 on 2019-10-22
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  • photo of shells of Cryptobranchia kuragiensis[permanent dead link] from: (in Japanese) Sasaki T., Matsubara T., Ito Y. & Amano K. (2008). "Illustrations of Cenozoic molluscan type specimens preserved in The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. Part 1. Four species of Patellogastropoda described as Acmaea". Chiribotan 39(1): 35–41.