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

Pterotrachea hippocampus R. A. Philippi, 1836

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pterotrachea*	Forsskål, 1775	accepted genus name
*Eupterotrachea*	Bonnevie, 1920	synonym
*Firola*	Bruguière, 1791	synonym
*Pterotrachea (Euryops)*	Tesch, 1906	synonym

Species group names

*Eupterotrachea minuta*	Bonnevie, 1920	synonym
*Firola cuviera*	Lesueur, 1817	synonym
*Firola forskalia*	Lesueur, 1817	synonym
*Firola frederica*	Lesueur, 1817	synonym
*Firola gibbosa*	Lesueur, 1817	synonym
*Firola hyalina*	Oken, 1815	synonym
*Firola mutica*	Lesueur, 1817	synonym
*Firola peronia*	Lesueur, 1817	synonym
*Pterotrachea (Euryops) mutabilis*	Tesch, 1906	synonym
*Pterotrachea (Euryops) orthopthalmus*	Tesch, 1906	synonym
*Pterotrachea cuvierii*	Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821	synonym
*Pterotrachea hippocampus var. apunctata*	Bonnevie, 1920	synonym
*Pterotrachea minuta*	(Bonnevie, 1920)	synonym
*Pterotrachea mutabilis*	Tesch, 1906	synonym
*Pterotrachea mutica*	(Lesueur, 1817)	synonym
*Pterotrachea orthopthalmus*	Tesch, 1906	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: チュウガタハダカゾウクラゲ

Literature

original description	Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini [Berlin].
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pterotrachea hippocampus R. A. Philippi, 1836. 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:139945