Lottioidea

Lottioidea
A live individual of Lottia pelta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea J. E. Gray, 1840 [1]
Families
See text
Synonyms [2]
Nacelloidea Thiele, 1891 Neolepetopsoidea McLean, 1990

Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets. ^{[2] [3]}

2005 taxonomy

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

• Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
• Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850
• Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850

2007 taxonomy

Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007) ^[4] there were eight families in Lottioidea:

• family Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850
• † family Daminilidae 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: ^[5]

• Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
• Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850
• † Family Damilinidae Horný, 1961
• Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850
• † Family Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990
• Family Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
• Family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 1990
• Family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891

References

1. Gray J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscous animals. In: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 42: 105-152. Lottiidae is on the page 115.
2. 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
3. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
4. Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies73(1) 79-99. doi : 10.1093/mollus/eym001.
5. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P.; Hausdorf B.; Kaim A.; Kano Y.; Nützel A.; Parkhaev P.; Schrödl M.; Strong E.E. (2017). "Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families". Malacologia (1–2): 334.