Neolepton

Neolepton
File:Neolepton veneris (MNHN-IM-2000-27087).jpeg
Shell of Neolepton veneris (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Veneroidea
Family:	Neoleptonidae
Genus:	Neolepton Monterosato, 1875
Type species
Lepton sulcatulum Jeffreys, 1859
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Davisia Cooper & Preston, 1910 (invalid: junior homonym of Davisia del Guercio, 1909 [Hemiptera]; Neodavisia is a replacement name) Halodakra Olsson, 1961 Neodavisia Chavan, 1969 Neolepton (Neolepton) Monterosato, 1875· accepted, alternate representation Neolepton (Stohleria) Coan, 1984· accepted, alternate representation Notolepton Finlay, 1926 Stohleria Coan, 1984

Neolepton is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Neoleptonidae.

Species in the genus Neolepton

• Neolepton amatoi Zelaya & Ituarte, 2004
• Neolepton antipodum (Filhol, 1880)
• Neolepton arjanbosi 2003
• Neolepton atlanticum 1890
• Neolepton benguelensis 1998
• Neolepton bonaerense 2004
• Neolepton caledonicum 1998
• Neolepton cancellatum 1998
• Neolepton cobbi 1910
• Neolepton concentricum 1912
• Neolepton discriminatum 2001
• Neolepton faberi 2003
• Neolepton falklandicum 1964
• Neolepton georgianum 2003
• Neolepton guanche 1998
• Neolepton holmbergi 2003
• Neolepton hupei 1957
• Neolepton moolenbeeki 2003
• Neolepton novacambricum 1915
• Neolepton peetersae 2003
• Neolepton planiliratum 1911
• Neolepton powelli Dell, 1964
• Neolepton profundorum 2000
• Neolepton sootryeni 1998
• Neolepton sublaevigatum Powell, 1937
• Neolepton subobliquum Powell, 1937
• Neolepton subtrigonum 1857
• Neolepton sulcatulum 1859
• Neolepton triangulare Dell, 1956
• Neolepton umbonatum 1885
• Neolepton veneris 1877
• Neolepton victor 2003
• Neolepton yagan 2004

Species Neolepton obliquatum Chaster, 1897 was accepted as Coracuta obliquata (Chaster, 1897). Species Neolepton sykesi (Chaster, 1895) accepted as Arculus sykesii (Chaster, 1895).

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1