Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Pseudothecosomata > Superfamily Cymbulioidea > Family Cymbuliidae > Subfamily Glebinae > Genus Gleba

Gleba cordata Forsskål, 1776

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gleba*	Forsskål, 1776	accepted genus name
*Tiedemannia*	Van Beneden, 1839	junior homonym

Species group names

*Tiedemannia creniptera*	Krohn, 1844	synonym
*Tiedemannia hyalina*	Tiberi, 1878	synonym
*Tiedemannia napolitana*	van Beneden, 1839	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Ghost Wingfoot sources: Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.

Japanese: カンテンカメガイ

Literature

original description	Niebuhr, C. (Ed.). (1776). Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris... edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [Copenhague], Möller, pp. 1-15, 43 pls.
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	Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
additional source	Spoel, S. van der & Dadon, J. R. (1999). Pteropoda. pp. 649-706, in: D. Boltovsloy (ed.), South Atlantic Zooplankton. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gleba cordata Forsskål, 1776. 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:139496