Otitoma
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| Otitoma | |
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| Otitoma gouldi shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898[1] |
| Type species | |
| Otitoma ottitoma Jousseaume, 1898 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Otitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2]
This genus consists of species with a rather variable appearance. Their different morphology points to an uncommon diversification.[3]
This genus was considered a nomen dubium by Powell in 1966,[4] until Kilburn resurrected it in 2004.[5] He considered Thelecytharella a synonym of Otitoma. Finally in 2011 Bouchet et al. closed the debate about this genera based on molecular evidence and assigned Otitoma to the family Pseudomelatomidae.[6]
