Lottioidea

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Lottioidea
File:Collisella pelta.jpg
A live individual of Lottia pelta
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Lottioidea

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

2005 taxonomy

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

2007 taxonomy

Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)[3] there were eight families in Lottioidea:

Families brought into synonymy
  • Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883: synonym of Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
  • Lottidae [sic] : synonym of Lottiidae Gray, 1840
  • Propilidiidae: synonym of Lepetidae Gray, 1850

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.
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  3. 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. doi:10.1093/mollus/eym001.