Optediceros
Genus of gastropods
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Optediceros is a genus of minute operculate snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the family Assimineidae.[1]
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| Optediceros | |
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| 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 | |
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Sphaerassiminea Habe, 1942 (junior synonym) | |
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)
