Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Pterotracheoidea > Family Pterotracheidae

Pterotrachea Forsskål, 1775

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eupterotrachea*	Bonnevie, 1920	synonym
*Firola*	Bruguière, 1791	synonym
*Pterotrachea (Euryops)*	Tesch, 1906	synonym

Children

Pterotrachea coronata Forsskål, 1775
Pterotrachea hippocampus R. A. Philippi, 1836
Pterotrachea scutata Gegenbaur, 1855

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ハダカゾウクラゲ属

Literature

original description	Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Pafort-van Iersel, T. (1983). Distribution and variation of Carinariidae and Pterotracheidae (Heteropoda, Gastropoda) of the Amsterdam Mid North Atlantic Plankton Expedition 1980. Beaufortia. 33: 73-96.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pterotrachea Forsskål, 1775. 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:138009