Lepetella
# Lepetella

Lepetella is a genus of very small deep-sea sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetellidae.

## Description

The small shell is smooth, oval or oblong, limpet-shaped or conical. It has a simple sub-central apex that isn't spiral. The animal resembles Lepeta Gray, 1847, but has distinct eyes. It has a taenioglossan radula with seven regular rows of teeth.

## Species

Species within the genus Lepetella include:

* Lepetella barrajoni Dantart & Luque, 1994
* Lepetella clypidellaeformis (Suter, 1908)
* Lepetella espinosae Dantart & Luque, 1994
* Lepetella ionica F. Nordsieck, 1973
* Lepetella laterocompressa (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
* † Lepetella parallela (Laws, 1950)
* Lepetella postapicula Dell, 1990
* Lepetella sierrai Dantart & Luque, 1994
* Lepetella tubicola Verrill & Smith, 1880
