Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Pterotracheoidea > Family Pterotracheidae

Pterotrachea Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Firola*	Bruguière, 1791	synonym

Children

Pterotrachea coronata Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775
Pterotrachea hippocampus Philippi, 1836
Pterotrachea scutata Gegenbaur, 1855

Literature

original description	Niebuhr C. (ed.) (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae [Copengagen], Möller, pp. 1-19 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, 1 map.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
additional source	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Pterotrachea Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138009