Lottioidea
Lottioidea | |
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A live individual of Lottia pelta | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Lottioidea J. E. Gray, 1840[1] |
Families | |
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Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.[2]
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)[3] there were eight families in Lottioidea:
- superfamily Lottioidea
- family Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850
- family Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
- family Lepetidae Gray, 1850
- family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891
- family Lottiidae Gray, 1840
- family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 1990
- † family Daminilidae
- † family Lepetopsidae
- Families brought into synonymy
- Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883: synonym of Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
- Lottidae [sic] : synonym of Lottiidae Gray, 1840
- Propilidiidae: synonym of Lepetidae Gray, 1850
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.
- ↑ 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.
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