| Perotrochus | |
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| Apertural view of Perotrochus atlanticus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Pleurotomariida |
| Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
| Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
| Genus: | Perotrochus Fischer, 1885[1] |
| Type species | |
| Perotrochus quoyana Fischer & Bernardi, 1856 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pleurotomaria (Perotrochus) Fischer 1885 | |
Perotrochus is a genus of large sea snails with gills and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
- ^ Fischer (1885). Man. Conch.: 850