Acmaeidae

Acmaeidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and the subclass Patellogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Taxonomy

Listed as valid family in Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) but this classification revised following the molecular phylogeny of Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Acmaeinae, including Erginus, was found to be paraphyletic. However, this synonymy was subsequently found incorrect, having been the result of contaminated samples, and Acmaea mitra and a related species, Niveotectura pallida form a well-supported clade outside of the Lottiidae, and Acmaeidae was re-established.

Genera

• Acmaea <small>Eschscholtz, 1833</small>
• † Marbodaeia <small>Chelot, 1886</small>
• † Pseudorhytidopilus <small>Cox, 1960</small>
• Rhodopetala <small>Dall, 1921</small>

• † Guerangeria <small>Cossmann, 1885</small> : synonym of † Marbodaeia <small>Chelot, 1886</small> (preoccupied by Guerangeria <small>Oehlert, 1881</small> [Bivalvia]; Marbodaeia <small>Chelot, 1886</small> is a replacement name)
• † Marbodeia [sic] : synonym of † Marbodaeia <small>Chelot, 1886</small> (misspelling in Haber (1932) and others)

References

• Forbes E. (1850). On the genera of British Patellacea. Report of the 19th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [Birmingham, 1849]. Notices and Abstracts of Communication. 75-76.
• Lindberg D.L. (1981). Rhodopetalinae, a new subfamily of Acmaeidae from the boreal Pacific: anatomy and systematics. Malacologia. 20(2): 291-305.