Atlanta (gastropod)

Atlanta
Temporal range: Bartonian-Recent
Atlanta anatomy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Pterotracheoidea
Family: Atlantidae
Genus: Atlanta
Lesueur, 1817
Type species
Atlanta peronii
Lesueur, 1817
Species

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Synonyms
  • Atlanta (Atlanta) Lesueur, 1817 superseded rank
  • Atlanta (Helicophlegma) A. d'Orbigny, 1836 junior subjective synonym
  • Brownia A. d'Orbigny, 1841 junior subjective synonym
  • Coelodiscopsis F. Nordsieck & GarcĂ­a-Talavera, 1979
  • Helicophlegma A. d'Orbigny, 1836
  • Ladas Cantraine, 1841
  • Steira Eschscholtz, 1825

Atlanta is a genus of pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the family Atlantidae.

They are sometimes called heteropods.