Lottioidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Lottioidea

| image = Collisella pelta.jpg

| image_caption = A live individual of Lottia pelta

| authority = J. E. Gray, 1840Gray 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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| synonyms =

  • Nacelloidea Thiele, 1891
  • Neolepetopsoidea McLean, 1990

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| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = See text

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Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.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{{cite journal

|author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P.

|name-list-style=amp | year = 2005

| title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families

| journal = Malacologia

| volume =47

| issue = 1–2

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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)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}}. there were eight families in Lottioidea:

;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:{{cite journal |author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P. |author3=Hausdorf B. |author4=Kaim A. |author5=Kano Y. |author6=Nützel A. |author7=Parkhaev P. |author8=Schrödl M. |author9=Strong E.E. |year=2017 |title=Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families |journal=Malacologia |issue=1-2 |page=334 }}

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