Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > 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

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; tortoiseshell limpets sources: MASDEA (1997).;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Schildkrötenschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: エンスイカサガイ科

Literature

original description	Forbes E. (1850). On the genera of British Patellacea. Report of the 19th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [Birmingham, 1849]. Notices and Abstracts of Communication. 75-76.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acmaeidae Forbes, 1850. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:114