Acmaeidae is a
family
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of
sea snails, specifically true
limpets,
marine gastropod mollusk
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s in the superfamily
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.marines ...
and the subclass
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 ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=114 on 2014-10-31]
Taxonomy
Listed as valid family in Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) but this classification revised following the
molecular phylogeny
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of Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Acmaeinae, including ''
Erginus'', was found to be
paraphyletic. However, this synonymy was subsequently found incorrect, having been the result of contaminated samples, and ''Acmaea mitra'' and a related species, ''
Niveotectura pallida'' form a well-supported clade outside of the
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
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, and Acmaeidae was re-established.
Genera
* ''
Acmaea''
Eschscholtz, 1833
* † ''
Marbodaeia''
Chelot, 1886
* † ''
Pseudorhytidopilus''
Cox, 1960
* ''
Rhodopetala''
Dall, 1921
;Synonyms:
* † ''Guerangeria''
Cossmann, 1885 : synonym of † ''Marbodaeia''
Chelot, 1886 (preoccupied by ''Guerangeria''
Oehlert, 1881 ivalvia ''Marbodaeia''
Chelot, 1886 is a replacement name)
* † ''Marbodeia''
ic : synonym of † ''Marbodaeia''
Chelot, 1886 (misspelling in Haber (1932) and others)
References
* Forbes E. (1850). On the genera of British Patellacea. Report of the 19th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
irmingham, 1849 Notices and Abstracts of Communication. 75-76.
* Lindberg D.L. (1981). Rhodopetalinae, a new subfamily of Acmaeidae from the boreal Pacific: anatomy and systematics. Malacologia. 20(2): 291-305.
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Lottioidea