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Pectinodontidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Lottioidea

Rank
  
Family

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Similar
  
Lottiidae, Cocculinidae, Seguenziidae

Pectinodontidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Patellogastropoda, the true limpets.

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Taxonomy

This family was ranked as subfamily Pectinodontinae (also with Acmaeinae and Rhodopetalinae) in the family Acmeaidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

Nakano & Ozawa (2007) elevated Pectinodontinae to family level Pectinodontidae based on molecular phylogeny research.

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda:

Genera

Genera in the family Pectinodontidae include:

Pectinodonta - the earliest known Pectinodonta are from Late Oligocene

  • Pectinodonta arcuata Dall, 1882 [1]
  • Pectinodonta palaeoxylodia Lindberg & Hedegaard, 1996

    • Problacmaea

  • Problacmaea apicina - cap limpet
  • Problacmaea moskalevi
  • Problacmaea rubella - reddish limpet
  • Problacmaea sybaritica - lush limpet

    • Bathyacmaea

  • Bathyacmaea secunda Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993

    • References

    Pectinodontidae Wikipedia
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