Lottioidea

Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.^[2][3]

Lottioidea
A live individual of Lottia pelta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:	Lottioidea J. E. Gray, 1840[1]
Families
See text
Synonyms[2]
Nacelloidea Thiele, 1891 Neolepetopsoidea McLean, 1990

2005 taxonomy

There are three families within Lottioidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

• Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
• Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850
• Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850

2007 taxonomy

Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)^[4] there were eight families in Lottioidea:

• family Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850
• † family Daminilidae Horný, 1961
• family Eoacmaeidae T. Nakano & Ozawa, 2007
• family Erginidae Chernyshev, 2018
• family Lepetidae Gray, 1850
• † family Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990
• family Lottiidae Gray, 1840
• family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 1990
• family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891

Families and subfamilies brought into synonymy

• Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883: synonym of Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
• Lottidae [sic] : synonym of Lottiidae Gray, 1840
• Propilidiidae: synonym of Lepetidae Gray, 1850
• Rhodopetalinae Linddberg, 1981: synonym of Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850 (a junior synonym)
• Tecturidae Gray, 1847 accepted as Tecturinae Gray, 1847 (original rank)

2017 taxonomy

According to the revised taxonomy of Bouchet et al (2017), the Lottioidea contains the following families:^[5]

• Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840
• Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850
• † Family Damilinidae Horný, 196125
• Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850
• † Family Lepetopsidae McLean, 199027
• Family Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
• Family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 199029
• Family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891