Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Calyptraeoidea

Calyptraeidae Lamarck, 1809

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Crepidulidae*	Fleming, 1822	synonym

Children

Bostrycapulus Olsson & Harbison, 1953
Calyptraea Lamarck, 1799
Crepidula Lamarck, 1799
Crepipatella Lesson, 1831

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

English-United States: slipper limpets sources: Charles Hussey

French: calyptréidés sources: Bousfield, E.L. 1964. Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. > Musée national du Canada, Ottawa. 89 p.

Swedish: toffelsnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	Marshall B.A. 2003. A review of the Recent and Late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 46(2): 117-144
additional source	Collin R. 2005. Development, phylogeny, and taxonomy of Bostrycapulus (Caenogastropoda: Calyptraeidae), an ancient cryptic radiation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144(1): 75-101
additional source	Hoagland, K.E. 1977. Systematic review of fossil and recent Crepidula and discussion of the evolution of the Calyptraeidae. Malacologia, 16(2): 353-420.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Calyptraeidae Lamarck, 1809. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141