| Lottioidea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea J. E. Gray, 18401 |
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| Synonyms2 | |
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Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.23
2005 taxonomy
There are three families within Lottioidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
- Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850
- Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850
2007 taxonomy
Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)4 there were eight families in Lottioidea:
- family Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850
- † family Damilinidae Horný, 1961
- family Eoacmaeidae T. Nakano & Ozawa, 2007
- family Erginidae Chernyshev, 2018
- family Lepetidae Gray, 1850
- † family Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990
- family Lottiidae Gray, 1840
- family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 1990
- family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891
- Families and subfamilies brought into synonymy
- Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883: synonym of Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
- Lottidae [sic] : synonym of Lottiidae Gray, 1840
- Propilidiidae: synonym of Lepetidae Gray, 1850
- Rhodopetalinae Linddberg, 1981: synonym of Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850 (a junior synonym)
- Tecturidae Gray, 1847 accepted as Tecturinae Gray, 1847 (original rank)
2017 taxonomy
According to the revised taxonomy of Bouchet et al (2017), the Lottioidea contains the following families:5
- Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
- Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850
- † Family Damilinidae Horný, 1961
- Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850
- † Family Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990
- Family Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
- Family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 1990
- Family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891
References
References
- Gray J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscous animals. In: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 42: 105-152. Lottiidae is on the page 115.
- MolluscaBase (2018). Lottioidea Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391063 on 2018-10-15
- Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- 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.
- Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P.; Hausdorf B.; Kaim A.; Kano Y.; Nützel A.; Parkhaev P.; Schrödl M.; Strong E.E. (2017). "Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families". Malacologia (1–2): 334.