Eratoidae

Eratoidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Cypraeoidea.

Eratoidae
Shell of Alaerato elizabethae (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Eratoidae Gill, 1871
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Eratoinae Gill, 1871 Eratotriviini Schilder, 1936 † Johnstrupiini Schilder, 1939 †

Genera

• Alaerato C. N. Cate, 1977
• Archierato Schilder, 1933
• † Bellerato Maxwell, 1992
• Caribeginella Espinosa & Ortea, 1998
• Cypraeerato Schilder, 1933
• Erato Risso, 1826
• Eratoena Iredale, 1935
• Eratopsis R. Hoernes, 1880
• † Eratotrivia Sacco, 1894
• Hespererato Schilder, 1933
• † Johnstrupia Ravn, 1933
• Lachryma Gray, 1832
• Notoficula Thiele, 1917
• Praealaerato Fehse, 2018 †
• Proterato Schilder, 1927
• Sulcerato Finlay, 1930

Synonyms

• Subfamily Eratoinae Gill, 1871 accepted as Eratoidae Gill, 1871
• Tribe Eratotriviini Schilder, 1936 † accepted as Eratoidae Gill, 1871
• Tribe Johnstrupiini Schilder, 1939 † accepted as Eratoidae Gill, 1871
• Genus Proerato [sic] accepted as Proterato Schilder, 1927 (misspelling)

References

• Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
• Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Hart, M. R. (1996). New species of Trivia and Erato (Gastropoda: Triviidae) from northern New Zealand waters. La Conchiglia. 279: 37–39, 62.

External links

• GillT. (1871). "Arrangement of the families of mollusks. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 227: 9. Retrieved 11 June 2026.