Otoconcha

Otoconcha
Otoconcha dimidiata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Charopidae
Genus: Otoconcha
Hutton, 1884
Synonyms
  • Otoconcha (Maoriconcha) Dell, 1952 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Otoconcha (Otoconcha) Hutton, 1883 · accepted, alternate representation

Otoconcha is a genus of small air-breathing semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Charopidae.

Otoconcha is the type genus of the subfamily Otoconchinae.

Description

Frederick Wollaston Hutton firstly defined this genus in 1884. Hutton's diagnosis reads as follows:

Shell external, of very few rapidly increasing whorls, all of which are open underneath. Animal limaciform, much too large to withdraw into the shell; mantle rather anterior, covering the shell; no locomotive disc, nor mucous caudal gland. Jaw with distant ribs.

Species

Species within the genus Otoconcha include:

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Hutton F. W. (1884). "Revision of the Land Mollusca of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 16: 186-212. page 199.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)