• Ptrachidia Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1814. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de M. r. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814. Ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palermo : Royale Typographie Militaire 55 pp. + errata. [29] [original spelling].

  Type genus:

   Pterotrachea Forskål, 1775.

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [251]

Lalli, C.M. & Gilmer, R.W. 1989. Pelagic Snails. The biology of holoplanktic gastropod molluscs. Stanford, California : Stanford Press, University of Stanford 159 pp. [27-53]

Newman, L. 1998. Superfamily Carinarioidea. pp. 804-808 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [807-808]

Seapy, R.R., Lalli, C.M. & Wells, F.E. 2003. Heteropoda from Western Australian Waters. pp. 513-546 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I. & Jones, D.S. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Marine Biological Workshop. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 2. [540]

History of changes

• Pterotrachea Neibuhr, C. 1775. Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål, prof. Haun., post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Copenhagen : Hauniae pp.164. [117-119].

  Type species:

   Pterotrachea coronata Forsskål, 1775 by subsequent designation.
• Firola Brugière, 1791.

  Type species:

   Pterotrachea coronata Forsskål, 1775 by subsequent designation.
• Heterodens Bonnevie, 1920.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Pterotrachea Forsskål, 1775 [non-binomial]. —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [50]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [50]

Lalli, C.M. & Gilmer, R.W. 1989. Pelagic Snails. The biology of holoplanktic gastropod molluscs. Stanford, California : Stanford Press, University of Stanford 159 pp. [32-53]

Newman, L. 1998. Superfamily Carinarioidea. pp. 804-808 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [807-808]

History of changes

• Pterotrachea hippocampus Philippi, R.A. 1836. Enumeratio Molluscorum Siciliae cum Viventium tum in Tellure Tertiaria Fossilium, Quae in Itinere suo Observavit Auctor. Berolini Vol. 1. pp. i-xiv, 1-268, 12 pls.
• Pterotrachea mutabilis Tesch, J.J. 1906. Die Heteropoden der 'Siboga' Expedition. Siboga-Expéditie Report 51: 1-112 [88, pl. 13, figs 86-89].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Moluccas.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. 2001. Mollusca. pp. 180-213 in Costello, M.J., Emblow, C., White, R.J. (Eds.). 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 Paris : Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Vol. 50 pp.463.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [50]

History of changes