Superfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pterotracheoidea

WoRMS 387338key worms:387338

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Firoloida desmarestia

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Pterotracheoidea — Photo · Saryu Mae 前朝琉 · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Pterotracheoidea is, according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda, a taxonomic superfamily of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha. They are commonly called heteropods or sea elephants.W CalCOFI holds 442 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2010.R

442
observations: 1,017
records: 1951–2010
years: 1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

F Atlantidae atlantas1,017

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:387338")

Pterotracheoidea

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.