Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

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Patellogastropoda The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda is d ...

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true limpets The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda is ...

.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

2005 taxonomy

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

Lottiidae Lottiidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the clade Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Subfamilies ...

J. E. Gray, 1840 *Family Acmaeidae

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, 1850 *Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850

2007 taxonomy

Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)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. . there were eight families in Lottioidea: * family Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850 * † family Daminilidae Horný, 1961 * family ''

Eoacmaeidae ''Eoacmaea'' is a genus of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda, the true limpets. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eoacmaea T. Nakano & Ozawa, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' T. Nakano & Ozawa, 2007 * family

Erginidae Erginidae is a family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda. Genera * ''Erginus In Greek mythology, Erginus ( grc, Ἐργῖνος) was the name of the following figures: * ...

Chernyshev, 2018 * family Lepetidae Gray, 1850 * † family Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990 * family

Gray, 1840 * family

Neolepetopsidae Neolepetopsidae is a family (biology), family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxono ...

McLean, 1990 * family

Pectinodontidae Pectinodontidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea, the true limpets. Lottioidea Taxonomy This family was previously ranked as subfamily Pectinodontinae (also with Acmaeinae an ...

Pilsbry, 1891 ;Families and subfamilies brought into synonymy: * Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883: synonym of Nacellidae Thiele, 1891 * Lottidae ic: 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: * Family

J. E. Gray, 1840 * Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850 * Family Damilinidae Horný, 196125 * Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850 * Family Lepetopsidae McLean, 199027 * Family

Nacellidae Nacellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Patellogastropoda. Taxonomy Nacellidae was the only family in the superfamily Nacelloidea as described by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005),. ...

Thiele, 1891 * Family

McLean, 199029 * Family

Pilsbry, 1891

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q12593653 Patellogastropoda Taxa named by John Edward Gray