Limpet

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