Neolepetopsoidea is the name of a
taxonomic
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superfamily which is now considered to be a
synonym
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of
Lottioidea
Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.MolluscaBase (2018). Lottioidea Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.mari ...
.
Previously Neolepetopsoidea was considered to be a family of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s within the clade
Patellogastropoda
The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine (ocean), marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic Order (biology), order.
...
.
Families
Families within the superfamily Neolepetopsoidea according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) include:
*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 – symmetrical limpets
* † Family
Daminilidae Horný, 1961
* † Family
Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990
(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger: †)
According to the
World Register of Marine Species
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, Neolepetopsoidea was synonymized with
Lottioidea
Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.MolluscaBase (2018). Lottioidea Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.mari ...
, so all these three families were moved to the superfamily Lottioidea.
See also
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References
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Patellogastropoda