Pterotracheidae
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Pterotracheidae is a family of medium-sized to large floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs. They are in the superfamily Pterotracheoidea along with two other similar pelagic families, the Atlantidae and the Carinariidae.
These pelagic snails are not at all closely related to the pelagic heterobranch opistobranchs such as the sea angels and sea butterflies. They are in the infraorder Littorinimorpha, and as such they are related to such families as the tritons (Ranellidae) and the tun shells (Tonnidae), in the order Sorbeoconcha and the superorder Caenogastropoda.
[edit] Genera within the family Pterotracheidae
- Firoloida Lesueur, 1817
- Pterotrachea Forskal, 1775
[edit] References
- Tree of Life: Pterotracheidae
- Pterotracheidae (TSN 72868). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
