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

Oxygyrus inflatus W. H. Benson, 1835

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oxygyrus*	W. H. Benson, 1835	accepted genus name
*Atys (Sphaeratys)*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym

Species group names

*Atlanta bivonae*	Mandralisca, 1840	synonym
*Atys (Sphaeratys) globulinus*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Atys globulinus*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Bellerophina minuta*	Forbes, 1844	synonym
*Oxygyrus rangii*	J. E. Gray, 1850	synonym

Literature

original description	Benson, W. H. (1835). Account of Oxygyrus a new genus of pelagian shells allied to the genus Atlanta of Lesueur, with a note on some other pelagian shells lately taken on board of the ship Malcolm. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 4: 173-176.
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. (2007). Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea, Janthinoidea, Thecosomata and Gymnosomata) from the Pliocene of Pangasinan (Luzon, Philippines). Scripta Geologica. 135: 29-177.
status source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Oxygyrus inflatus W. H. Benson, 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:584856