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Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850 
AphiaID: 114

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Patellogastropoda (Subclass) > Lottioidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Typetaxon Acmaea Eschscholtz, 1833
Parent Lottioidea
Sources  basis of record: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397. [details]

basis of record: Nakano T. & Sasaki T. (2011) Recent advances in molecular phylogeny, systematics and evolution of patellogastropod limpets. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 203-217. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch schotelhorens  [details]
English limpets  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Acmaea Eschscholtz, 1833
Genus Erginus Jeffreys, 1877
Genus Niveotectura Habe, 1944
Genus Rhodopetala Dall, 1921

Genus Problacmaea Golikov & Kussakin, 1972 accepted as Erginus Jeffreys, 1877
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To ITIS
Note  Classification: Listed as valid family in Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) but classification revised following the molecular phylogeny of Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Acmaeinae, including Erginus, is paraphyletic. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:114
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-05-18 07:40:01Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-04-11 12:32:38Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
2009-04-13 21:27:48Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
2011-07-28 18:30:28Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=114 on 2013-05-19
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