Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Patellogastropoda > Superfamily Lottioidea

Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Listed as valid family in Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) but classification revised following the molecular phylogeny of Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Acmaeinae, including Erginus, is paraphyletic.

Children

Acmaea Eschscholtz, 1833
Erginus Jeffreys, 1877

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: schotelhorens sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: limpets

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	Nakano T. & Sasaki T. (2011) Recent advances in molecular phylogeny, systematics and evolution of patellogastropod limpets. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 203-217.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:114