Pectinodontidae
Family of gastropods
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Pectinodontidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea, the true limpets.[1]
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| Pectinodonta orientalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891 |
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Taxonomy
This family was previously ranked as subfamily Pectinodontinae (also with Acmaeinae and Rhodopetalinae) in the family Acmeaidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
Nakano & Ozawa (2007)[2] elevated Pectinodontinae to family level Pectinodontidae based on molecular phylogeny research.[2]
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda:[2]
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Genera
Genera in the family Pectinodontidae include:
- Bathyacmaea
- Bathyacmaea secunda Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993
- Pectinodonta - the earliest known Pectinodonta are from Late Oligocene[3]
