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Taxon: Family Calyptraeidae Lamarck, 1809 - slipper snails and shelf limpets (mollusc)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  J.B.P.A. de Lamarck, 1809

Types

Nominotypical taxon of: Calyptraeoidea (Superfamily) Lamarck, 1809
Type: Calyptraea (Genus) Lamarck, 1799 Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 42.

Variants

Different rank: Calyptraeinae (Subfamily) Blainville, 1824

Synonyms

Accepted name (subjective): Crepidulidae (Family) Fleming, 1822
Synonymous name: Cryptinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1868, nom. illeg. Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Synonymous name: Dispotaeinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1868 Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Synonymous name: Ergeinae (Subfamily) Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, orth. inval. Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Synonymous name: Galerinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1857 Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Synonymous name: Mitrellinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1868, nom. illeg. Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Synonymous name: Trochitinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1868 Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Synonymous name (subjective): Crepidulidae (Family) Fleming, 1822 Ref: P. Bouchet & J.-P. Rocroi, 2005: 250.
Including: Crepidulinae (Subfamily) Fleming, 1822

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: slipper snails and shelf limpets
: cup and saucer shells and slipper shells
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