Lottioidea
Superfamily of gastropods
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Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.[2][3]
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| A live individual of Lottia pelta | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea J. E. Gray, 1840[1] |
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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