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Eoacmaea

Eoacmaea is a genus of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.

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Eoacmaea
Shell of Eoacmaea profunda (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Eoacmaeidae
Genus: Eoacmaea
Nakano & Ozawa, 20071
Type species
Patella profunda Deshayes, 1863

Eoacmaea is a genus of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.2

Eoacmaea is the only genus in the family Eoacmaeidae, belonging to the superfamily Lottioidea.

Etymology

The generic name Eoacmaea is composed from the Eo that mean "early"1 in Greek and Acmaea,1 that is the genus of gastropod in family Lottiidae.

Taxonomy

The family Eoacmaeidae was established by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)1 for the genus Eoacmaea.

A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)1 and superfamilies based on World Register of Marine Species:2

Patellogastropoda
Eoacmaeoidea

Eoacmaeidae - only one genus Eoacmaea

Eoacmaea is the most basal group within Patellogastropoda1 and Eoacmaea have diversified from other Patellogastropoda in Tethys Ocean in Triassic or Jurassic about 203 million years ago (limits are from 143 to 279 million years ago).1

Species

Species within the genus Eoacmaea include:1

References

References

  1. Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99. doi:10.1093/mollus/eym001.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eoacmaea T. Nakano & Ozawa, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456551 on 2020-11-03