On the name Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851, with proposal of a new genus Cryptolepeta gen. nov. (Gastropoda, Lepetidae)

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A. V. Chernyshev · A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ivan D. Ilin · Far Eastern Federal University

Boris A. Sheiko · Zoological Institute

Abstract

The generic name Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851 is a junior objective synonym of Lepeta J.E. Gray, 1842. Designation of Patella caeca var. concentrica Middendorff, 1848 as a type of Cryptobranchia is invalid. For two species previously assigned to the genus Cryptobranchia [Lepeta concentrica (Middendorff, 1848) and Acmaea kuragiensis Yokoyama, 1920], the new generic name Cryptolepeta gen. nov. is proposed.

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Mollusks and Parasites Studies Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Geological Formations and Processes Exploration

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Published in: Ruthenica Russian Malacological Journal

Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. 103-105

DOI: 10.35885/ruthenica.2026.36(2).5

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On the name Cryptobranchia Middendorff, 1851, with proposal of a new genus Cryptolepeta gen. nov. (Gastropoda, Lepetidae)

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