Optediceros

Optediceros
Shell of Optediceros breviculum (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Optediceros Leith, 1853
Type species
Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853
Synonyms
Sphaerassiminea Habe, 1942 (junior synonym)

Optediceros is a genus of minute operculate snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the family Assimineidae.

Species

Species within Optediceros include:

• Optediceros breviculum (Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853

Species brought into synonymy

• Optediceros corneum Leith, 1853: synonym of Assiminea cornea (Leith, 1853) (original combination)

References

• Leith, A. H. 1853. Note on an Apparently New Genus of Gasteropod. The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 5: 145-146.
• Habe, T. (1942). Classification of Japanese Assimineidae. Venus. 12(1-2): 32-56, pls 1-4.

External links

• Fukuda H. & Ponder W.F. 2003. Australian freshwater assimineids, with a synopsis of the Recent genus-group taxa of the Assimineidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Journal of Natural History, 37: 1977-2032

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