Informal group Opisthobranchia clade Sacoglossa Lophopleurella capensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

The type locality for this species is South Africa.

[3] This species was originally described under name Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis by German malacologist Johannes Thiele in 1912 as a result of the Gauss Expedition (1901–1903), that was the first German expedition to Antarctica.

Johannes Thiele described it very briefly stating, that it "has wing-shaped attachments on sides of the body and very small wing on its shell".

[2] German malacologist Adolf Michael Zilch established a new genus Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956[1] for this species, because the name Lophopleura Ragonot, 1891[4] had already been occupied and used for a genus of lepidopterans from family Pyralidae.