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
;Subfamily Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923Patelloida Quoy & Gaimard, 1834Collisella Dall, 1871: synonym of Lottia Gray, 1833
;Subfamily Tecturinae Gray, 1847Tectura Gray, 1847
;Subfamily incertae sedis
:Actinoleuca Oliver, 1926Asteracmea Oliver, 1926Atalacmea Iredale, 1915