Otoconcha
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| Otoconcha | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Family: | Charopidae |
| Subfamily: | Otoconchinae |
| Genus: | Otoconcha Hutton, 1884[1] |
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.[2]
Description
Frederick Wollaston Hutton firstly defined this genus in 1884.[1] Hutton's diagnosis reads as follows:[1]
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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. |
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Species
Species within the genus Otoconcha include:
- Otoconcha dimidiata (Pfeiffer, 1853) - type species
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997.
External links
- Baker H. B. (1938) "The Endodont genus Otochoncha". Journal of Molluscan Studies 23: page 89-91.
- Dell R. K. (1952). "Otoconcha and its allies in New Zealand". Dominion Mus. Rec. Zool., Wellington 1: 59-69, 8+8 figures.
- Suter H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington, 1120 pp. page 620.
- Suter H. (1915). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Atlas of plates. John Mackay, Government printer, Wellington. plate 25, figure 2, 2a.
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