Lottiidae


Lottiidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the clade Patellogastropoda.

Subfamilies

2005 taxonomy

This family consists of the two following subfamilies :
  • Lottiinae Gray, 1840
  • * tribe Lottiini Gray, 1840 - synonym: Tecturidae Gray, 1847
  • * tribe Scurriini Lindberg, 1988
  • Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923

    2007 taxonomy

Nakano & Ozawa 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:

Genera

Genera within the family Lottiidae include:
;Subfamily Lottiinae
  • tribe Lottiini
  • * Discurria Lindberg, 1988
  • * Lottia Gray, 1833 - type species of the family Lottiidae
  • * Notoacmea Iredale, 1915
  • * Scurria Gray, 1847
;Subfamily Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923
  • Patelloida Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
  • Collisella Dall, 1871: synonym of Lottia Gray, 1833
;Subfamily Tecturinae Gray, 1847
  • Tectura Gray, 1847
;Subfamily incertae sedis
:
  • Actinoleuca Oliver, 1926
  • Asteracmea Oliver, 1926
  • Atalacmea Iredale, 1915
  • † Boreoblinia O. Yu. Anistratenko, Burger & V. V. Anistratenko, 2010
  • Nipponacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993
  • Niveotectura Habe, 1944
  • Potamacmaea Peile, 1922
  • Radiacmea Iredale, 1915
  • Testudinalia Moskalev, 1966
  • Yayoiacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993