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

Lottiidae Gray, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lottiinae Gray, 1840
Tecturinae J. E. Gray, 1847
Testudinalia Moskalev, 1966

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: tortoiseshell limpets sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: ユキノカサガイ／コガモガイ科

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscous animals, pp. 105-152. in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. ed. 42. G. Woodfall. London. 370 pp.
basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lottiidae Gray, 1840. 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:7173