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Pelican's foot

Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758)

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The pelican's foot (Aporrhais pespelecani) is a species in the family Aporrhaidae, order Littorinimorpha.

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Quick facts about the pelican's foot

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the pelican's foot live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pelican's foot as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Georgia
  2. Türkiye

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the pelican's foot endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the pelican's foot classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. orderLittorinimorpha
  5. familyAporrhaidae
  6. genusAporrhais
  7. SpeciesAporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Aporrhais aldrovandi, Aporrhais conemenosi, Aporrhais pelecanipes, Aporrhais pespelecani oblongus, Aporrhais pespelecani robustissimus, Aporrhais pespelecani var. aculeus, Aporrhais pespelecani var. albida, Aporrhais pespelecani var. bifida, Aporrhais pespelecani var. bilobata, Aporrhais pespelecani var. caucasica, Aporrhais pespelecani var. incrassata, Aporrhais pespelecani var. longisdigitatus, Aporrhais pespelecani var. oceanica, Aporrhais pespelecani var. panormitana, Aporrhais pespelecani var. robusta, Aporrhais pespelecani var. venetiana, Aporrhais pespelecani var. viator, Aporrhais pespelecani var. vinitincta, Aporrhais pespelecani var. violacea, Aporrhais pespelicani, Aporrhais quadrifidus, Chenopus pespelecani, Chenopus pespelicani, Fusus fragilis, Murex gracilis, Rostellaria aladraconis, Rostellaria pespelicani, Strombus pespelecani

Other names and names in other languages (35)
  • Common pelican's footEnglish
  • Common pelican’s footEnglish
  • Pelican's-footEnglish
  • pie de pelícanuAsturian
  • křídlatka pelikáníCzech
  • pelikanfodDanish
  • PelikanfusGerman
  • ΠελεκανοπόδαροGreek
  • Pie de pelícanoSpanish
  • pied de pélicanFrench
  • כף-שקנאיHebrew
  • pie' di pellicaniItalian
  • モミジソデJapanese
  • pelikanfotsneglNorwegian Bokmål
  • pelikaansvoetDutch
  • pelikanfotsnigelNorwegian Nynorsk
  • noga pelikanaPolish
  • Pé-de-pelicanoPortuguese
  • Пеликанья ногаRussian
  • brodinôžka pelikániaSlovak
  • pelikanovo stopalceSlovenian
  • Këmbë pelikaniAlbanian
  • pelikanfotsnäckaSwedish
  • Pelikan Ayağı SalyangozuTurkish
  • PelikanfordsneglDanish
  • Gewöhnlicher PelikanfußGerman
  • PelikanfußGerman
  • PelikansfußGerman
  • Pied de pélican communFrench
  • piede di pellicanoItalian
  • pelikaansvoetjeDutch
  • Пеликанова ногаRussian
  • Апорраис пеликанья ногаRussian
  • kërmilli këmbëpelikanAlbanian
  • större pelikanfotssnäckaSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the pelican's foot

Other species in the same genus Aporrhais.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the pelican's foot an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the pelican's foot as introduced in 2 countries: Georgia and Türkiye, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the pelican's foot?

The pelican's foot (Aporrhais pespelecani) belongs to the family Aporrhaidae in the order Littorinimorpha.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pelican's foot (Aporrhais pespelecani). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pelicans-foot

MLA

“Pelican's foot (Aporrhais pespelecani).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pelicans-foot.

BibTeX
@misc{pelicans_foot_2026,
  title = {Pelican's foot (Aporrhais pespelecani)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pelicans-foot},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}