Lottiidae

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).

Subfamilies

2005 taxonomy

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

• Lottiinae Gray, 1840
• tribe Lottiini Gray, 1840 - synonym: Tecturidae Gray, 1847
• tribe Scurriini Lindberg, 1988
• Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923

2007 taxonomy

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:

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

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

• Actinoleuca <small>Oliver, 1926</small>
• Asteracmea <small>Oliver, 1926</small>
• Atalacmea <small>Iredale, 1915</small>
• † Boreoblinia <small>O. Yu. Anistratenko, Burger & V. V. Anistratenko, 2010</small>
• Nipponacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993
• Niveotectura <small>Habe, 1944</small>
• Potamacmaea <small>Peile, 1922</small>
• Radiacmea <small>Iredale, 1915</small>
• Testudinalia <small>Moskalev, 1966</small>
• Yayoiacmea <small>Sasaki & Okutani, 1993</small>

References