Neomphalidae McLean, 1981

Kiel, Steffen & Goedert, James L., 2007, New mollusks associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deep-water sediments of Washington State, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (1), pp. 41-52 : 42

Family Neomphalidae McLean, 1981 Genus Leptogyra Bush, 1897

Type species: Leptogyra verrilli Bush, 1897 ; Recent , northwestern Atlantic .

Discussion.— Leptogyra has previously been placed in the Skeneidae Clark, 1851 , a family that currently is a “dumping ground” for small, poorly studied deep−sea gastropods. Ongoing work indicates that Leptogyra belongs to the vent and seep endemic Neomphalidae ( Kiel and Goedert 2006b; Steffen Kiel, Gerhard Haszprunar, and Yasunori Kano unpublished data).