Otoconcha
Genus of gastropods
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Otoconcha is a genus of small air-breathing semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Charopidae.
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| Otoconcha dimidiata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Charopidae |
| Genus: | Otoconcha Hutton, 1884[1] |
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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.
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