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).
| Lottiidae | |
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| A live individual of Lottia pelta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840[1] |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
Lottidae [sic] | |
Subfamilies
2005 taxonomy
This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Lottiinae Gray, 1840
- tribe Lottiini Gray, 1840 - synonym: Tecturidae Gray, 1847
- tribe Scurriini Lindberg, 1988
- Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
2007 taxonomy
Nakano & Ozawa (2007)[3] made changes in taxonomy of Patellogastropoda based on molecular phylogeny research: Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850 is a synonym of Lottiidae and assigned genera Acmaea and Niveotectura into Lottiidae.
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda:[3]
| Patellogastropoda |
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Genera
Genera within the family Lottiidae include:
- Subfamily Lottiinae
- tribe Lottiini
- Subfamily Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
- Patelloida Quoy & Gaimard, 1834[6]
- Collisella Dall, 1871:[7] synonym of Lottia Gray, 1833
- Subfamily Tecturinae Gray, 1847
- Subfamily incertae sedis
(Genera that were under Acmaeidae by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) formerly in subfamily Rhodopetalinae):[3]
- Actinoleuca Oliver, 1926
- Asteracmea Oliver, 1926
- Atalacmea Iredale, 1915
- † Boreoblinia O. Yu. Anistratenko, Burger & V. V. Anistratenko, 2010
- Nipponacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993[9]
- Niveotectura Habe, 1944
- Potamacmaea Peile, 1922
- Radiacmea Iredale, 1915
- Testudinalia Moskalev, 1966
- Yayoiacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993
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