''Otoconcha'' is a
genus of small air-breathing
semi-slugs,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
s 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:
Species
Species within the genus ''Otoconcha'' include:
* ''
Otoconcha dimidiata''
(Pfeiffer, 1853) - type species
* ''
Otoconcha fiordlandica''
(Dell, 1952)
* ''
Otoconcha oconnori''
(Powell, 1941)
* ''
Otoconcha roscoei''
Climo, 1971
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
External links
*
Baker H. B. (1938) "The Endodont genus ''Otochoncha''". ''
Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 23
page 8991.
* 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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Charopidae