Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Limacinoidea > Family Heliconoididae > Genus Heliconoides

Heliconoides inflatus (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Heliconoides*	A. d'Orbigny, 1835	accepted genus name
*Embolus*	Jeffreys, 1869	junior homonym
*Atlanta (Heliconoides)*	A. d'Orbigny, 1836	synonym
*Protomedea*	O. G. Costa, 1861	synonym

Species group names

*Atlanta (Heliconoides) inflata*	A. d'Orbigny, 1835	synonym
*Atlanta inflata*	A. d'Orbigny, 1835	synonym
*Limacina inflata*	(A. d'Orbigny, 1835)	synonym
*Limacina scaphoidea*	A. Gould, 1852	synonym
*Protomedea elata*	O. G. Costa, 1861	synonym
*Spirialis appendiculata*	Pelseneer, 1888	synonym
*Spirialis rostralis*	Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Janssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico. 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from the gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea and gulf of Aden (Late Holocene-Recent). The Veliger. 49 (3): 140-195.
additional source	Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 37-206.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2012). Early Pliocene heteropods and pteropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Le Puget-sur-Argens (Var), France. Cainozoic Research. 9 (2): 145-187.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. & Wilson, B. (2019). A collection of juvenile holoplanktic Mollusca (Gastropoda, Pterotracheoidea and Pteropoda) from the Miocene of Trinidad, with the introduction of the new genus Chriskingia. Cainozoic Research. 19 (1): 79-94.
additional source	Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 305-346.
additional source	Janssen, A.W. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea, Janthinoidea, Thecosomata and Gymnosomata) from the Pliocene of Pangasinan (Luzon, Philippines). Scripta Geologica. 135: 29-177.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Heliconoides inflatus (A. d'Orbigny, 1835). 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:605965