pteropod

A sea butterfly.

Having an alate podium, or winglike expansions of the foot, as a mollusk; of or pertaining to the Pteropoda. Also pteropodous.

A mollusk of the class Pteropoda. The shell-bearing pteropods are the Thecosomata; the naked pteropods are the Gymnsomata; spiny pteropods belong to the family Cavoliniidæ, and spiral pteropods to the Limacinidæ; slipper-pteropods are Cymbuliidæ. Also pteropode.

One of the Pteropoda.

Any of several small marine gastropod mollusks, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike lobes on the feet; the sea butterfly

Of or pertaining to these creatures