Perotrochus quoyanus

Perotrochus quoyanus
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Perotrochus quoyanus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Pleurotomariida
Superfamily: Pleurotomarioidea
Family: Pleurotomariidae
Genus: Perotrochus
Species:
P. quoyanus
Binomial name
Perotrochus quoyanus
(Fischer & Bernardi, 1856)

Perotrochus quoyanus is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.

Subspecies
  • Perotrochus quoyanus insularis Okutani & Goto, 1985 (synonym: Perotrochus insularis Okutani & Goto, 1985 )
  • Perotrochus quoyanus quoyanus (P. Fischer & Bernardi, 1856) (synonyms: Pleurotomaria quoyana Fischer & Bernardi, 1856; Perotrochus gemma F. M. Bayer, 1966; Perotrochus coltrorum Rios, 2003)