Otoconcha

Otoconcha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

Family: Charopidae
Subfamily: Otoconchinae
Genus: Otoconcha
Hutton, 1884[1]
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.[2]

Description

Frederick Wollaston Hutton firstly defined this genus in 1884.[1] Hutton's diagnosis reads as follows:[1]

“

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:

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[1]

  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.
  2. ↑ 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.

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