Nacellidae

Nacellidae
A shell of Cellana ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Nacelloidea
J. Thiele, 1891
Family: Nacellidae
Thiele, 1891[1]
Genera

See text
Synonyms

Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883

Nacellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda.[2]

Nacellidae is the only family in the superfamily Nacelloidea. This family has no subfamilies.

Taxonomy

The following is a cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of the Patellogastropoda, based on molecular phylogeny research by Nakano & Ozawa (2007)[3]:

Patellogastropoda



Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura)




Pectinodontidae


Lepetidae



Nacellidae




Patellidae



Eoacmaeidae


Genera

Genera within the family Nacellidae include:

References

  1. ^ (German) Thiele J. 1891. Das Gebiss der Schnecken, zur Begründung einer natürlichen Classification. Nicolai, Berlin, 2(7): 249-334. Nacellidae is on the page 327.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  3. ^ Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). "Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence". Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99. doi:10.1093/mollus/eym001.
  4. ^ Iredale T. (1924). Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 49: 182, 238.