Nacellidae
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| A shell of Cellana ornata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Nacelloidea J. Thiele, 1891 |
| Family: | Nacellidae Thiele, 1891[1] |
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Bertiniidae Jousseaume, 1883 |
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Nacellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Patellogastropoda.[2]
Nacellidae is the only family in the superfamily Nacelloidea. This family has no subfamilies.
Taxonomy
The following is a cladogram showing the phylogenic relationships of the Patellogastropoda, based on molecular phylogeny research by Nakano & Ozawa (2007):[3]
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Genera
Genera within the family Nacellidae include:
- Cellana H. Adams, 1869
- Macklintockia Gould, 1846 - with one species Macklintockia scabra (Gould, 1846)
- Nacella Schumacher, 1817 - type genus
- Naccula Iredale, 1924[4]
References
- ^ (German) Thiele J. 1891. Das Gebiss der Schnecken, zur Begründung einer natürlichen Classification. Nicolai, Berlin, 2(7): 249-334. Nacellidae is on the page 327.
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Iredale T. (1924). Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 49: 182, 238.
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