Lottioidea | |
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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 | |
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.[2][3]
There are three families within Lottioidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Based on molecular research on the Patellogastropoda by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)[4] there were eight families in Lottioidea:
According to the revised taxonomy of Bouchet et al (2017), the Lottioidea contains the following families:[5]