Pectinodontidae

Pectinodontidae
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Recent[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Lottioidea
Family: Pectinodontidae
Pilsbry, 1891
Genera and species

See text.

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)[2] elevated Pectinodontinae to family level Pectinodontidae based on based on molecular phylogeny research.[2]

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Patellogastropoda:[2]

Patellogastropoda



Lottiidae (including Acmaea and Niveotectura)




Pectinodontidae


Lepetidae



Nacellidae




Patellidae



Eoacmaeidae


Genera

Genera in the family Pectinodontidae include:

Pectinodonta - the earliest known Pectinodonta are from Late Oligocene[1]

Problacmaea

Bathyacmaea

References

  1. ^ a b c Lindberg D. R. & Hedegaard C. (1996). "A deep water patellogastropod from Oligocene water-logged wood of Washington state, Usa (Acmaeoidea: Pectinodonta)". Journal of Mollusca Studies 62(3): 299-314. abstract
  2. ^ a b c 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.

Further reading