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
Problacmaea
Bathyacmaea
References
Pectinodontidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA