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).

Lottiidae
A live individual of Lottia pelta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea
Family:	Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840[1]
Genera
See text
Synonyms[2]
Lottidae [sic]

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

A live individual of Discurria insessa

2007 taxonomy

Nakano & Ozawa (2007)^[3] 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:^[3]

Patellogastropoda	Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura) Pectinodontidae Lepetidae Nacellidae Patellidae Eoacmaeidae

Genera

Lottia gigantea

Tectura palacea feeding on the algal film on the surface of a blade of Phyllospadix

Genera within the family Lottiidae include:

Subfamily Lottiinae

• tribe Lottiini
  • Discurria Lindberg, 1988^[4]
  • Lottia Gray, 1833 - type species of the family Lottiidae
  • Notoacmea Iredale, 1915^[5]
  • Scurria Gray, 1847

Subfamily Patelloidinae Chapman & Gabriel, 1923

• Patelloida Quoy & Gaimard, 1834^[6]
• Collisella Dall, 1871:^[7] synonym of Lottia Gray, 1833

Subfamily Tecturinae Gray, 1847

• Tectura Gray, 1847^[8]

Subfamily incertae sedis

(Genera that were under Acmaeidae by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) formerly in subfamily Rhodopetalinae):^[3]

• Actinoleuca Oliver, 1926
• Asteracmea Oliver, 1926
• Atalacmea Iredale, 1915
• † Boreoblinia O. Yu. Anistratenko, Burger & V. V. Anistratenko, 2010
• Nipponacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993^[9]
• Niveotectura Habe, 1944
• Potamacmaea Peile, 1922
• Radiacmea Iredale, 1915
• Testudinalia Moskalev, 1966
• Yayoiacmea Sasaki & Okutani, 1993