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Wikipedia / Lottioidea

Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.

2005 taxonomy

There are three families within Lottioidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

2007 taxonomy

Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007) 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:

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