Lottioidea is a superfamily of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.MolluscaBase (2018). Lottioidea Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391063 on 2018-10-15
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)Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99. . there were eight families in Lottioidea: family Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850 † family Damilinidae 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:
Family Lottiidae J. E. Gray, 1840 Family Acmaeidae E. Forbes, 1850 Family Damilinidae Horný, 1961 Family Lepetidae J. E. Gray, 1850 Family Lepetopsidae McLean, 1990 Family Nacellidae Thiele, 1891 Family Neolepetopsidae McLean, 1990 Family Pectinodontidae Pilsbry, 1891
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