Neolepetopsoidea

Neolepetopsoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Neolepetopsoidea
McLean, 1990[1]
Families

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Neolepetopsoidea is considered as a synonym of Lottioidea.[2]

Previously Neolepetopsoidea was considered as a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the clade Patellogastropoda.[3]

Families

Families within the superfamily Neolepetopsoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) include:

(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger: †)

Neolepetopsoidea was synonymized with Lottioidea so all these three families also moved to superfamily Lottioidea in World Register of Marine Species.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ McLean J. H. (7 November) 1990. Neolepetopsidae, a new docoglossate limpet family from hydrothermal vents and its relevance to patellogastropod evolution. Journal of Zoology, London, 222(3): 485-528, plates 1-12. Neolepetopsidae is at page 490.
  2. ^ a b Gofas, S. (2010). Patellogastropoda. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382158 on 2010-04-01
  3. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).