Lottiidae

Lottiidae
A live individual of Collisella pelta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
Synonyms
Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850

Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850

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).

This family consists of the two following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Nakano & Ozawa (2007) 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:

Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura)

Pectinodontidae

Lepetidae

Nacellidae

Patellidae

Eoacmaeidae

Genera within the family Lottiidae include:

Subfamily Lottiinae

Subfamily Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923

(Genera that were under Acmeaidae by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) formerly in subfamily Acmaeinae):

(Genera that were under Acmeaidae by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) formerly in subfamily Rhodopetalinae):

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