Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Trochida > Superfamily Trochoidea > Family Trochidae > Subfamily Trochinae > Genus Trochus

Trochus erithreus Brocchi, 1821

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Trochus*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Infundibulops*	Pilsbry, 1889	synonym
*Trochus (Infundibulops)*	Pilsbry, 1889	synonym

Species group names

*Trochus erythraeus*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Trochus erythreus*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Infundibulops erithreus*	(Brocchi, 1821)	synonym
*Infundibulum erythraeum*	(Brocchi, 1821)	synonym

Literature

original description	Brocchi, G. B. (1821). Catalogo di una serie di conchiglie raccolte presso la costa africana del golfo Arabico dal sig. G. Forni. Biblioteca Italiana, ossia Giornale di letteratura scienze ed arti. 24: 73-86, 209-226.
additional source	Zenetos, A., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493.
additional source	Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
additional source	Galil, B. (2007). Seeing Red: Alien species along the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Aquatic Invasions. 2(4): 281-312.
additional source	Zuschin, M., Janssen, R. & Baal, C. (2009). Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 1: Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 111[A]: 73–158.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trochus erithreus Brocchi, 1821. 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:225666