Lottioidea is a
superfamily of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s or limpets,
marine gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
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 e ...
s in the clade
Patellogastropoda
The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpet
Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning th ...
, the
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 ...
.
[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
200 ...
J. E. Gray
John Edward Gray, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoology, zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ...
, 1840
*Family
Acmaeidae
Acmaeidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Bouchet, P. ...
E. Forbes, 1850
*Family
Lepetidae
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
Taxonomy
This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy ...
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
Acmaeidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Bouchet, P. ...
Forbes, 1850
* † family
Daminilidae
Daminilidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda. This family has no subfamilies.
Taxonomy
Daminilidae belongs to superfamily Neolepetopsoidea according to the ta ...
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 o ...
''
T. Nakano & Ozawa, 2007
* family
Erginidae Chernyshev, 2018
* family
Lepetidae
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
Taxonomy
This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy ...
Gray, 1850
* † family
Lepetopsidae
Lepetopsidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the clade Patellogastropoda.
This family has no subfamilies.
Members of extant family Neolepetopsidae probably developed from Lepetopsidae. McLean J. H. (7 November 1990). "Neolepetopsidae, a ...
McLean, 1990
* 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
200 ...
Gray, 1840
* family
Neolepetopsidae
Neolepetopsidae is a family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies.
...
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 a ...
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
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
200 ...
J. E. Gray, 1840
* Family
Acmaeidae
Acmaeidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Bouchet, P. ...
E. Forbes, 1850
* Family
Damilinidae
Daminilidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda. This family has no subfamilies.
Taxonomy
Daminilidae belongs to superfamily Neolepetopsoidea according to the ta ...
Horný, 196125
* Family
Lepetidae
Lepetidae is a family of sea snails or small, deep-water true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda the true limpets.
Taxonomy
This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy ...
J. E. Gray, 1850
* Family
Lepetopsidae
Lepetopsidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the clade Patellogastropoda.
This family has no subfamilies.
Members of extant family Neolepetopsidae probably developed from Lepetopsidae. McLean J. H. (7 November 1990). "Neolepetopsidae, a ...
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),. H ...
Thiele, 1891
* Family
Neolepetopsidae
Neolepetopsidae is a family of small deep sea sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies.
...
McLean, 199029
* 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 a ...
Pilsbry, 1891
References
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Patellogastropoda
Taxa named by John Edward Gray