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).

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