Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.
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) there were eight families in Lottioidea:
Families and subfamilies brought into synonymy:
- Bertiniidae <small>Jousseaume, 1883</small>: synonym of Nacellidae <small>Thiele, 1891</small>
- Lottidae [sic] : synonym of Lottiidae <small>Gray, 1840</small>
- Propilidiidae: synonym of Lepetidae <small>Gray, 1850</small>
- Rhodopetalinae <small>Linddberg, 1981</small>: synonym of Acmaeidae <small>Forbes, 1850</small> (a junior synonym)
- Tecturidae <small>Gray, 1847</small> accepted as Tecturinae <small>Gray, 1847</small> (original rank)
2017 taxonomy
According to the revised taxonomy of Bouchet et al (2017), the Lottioidea contains the following families:
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