Otoconcha
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| Otoconcha | |
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| Otoconcha dimidiata | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Charopidae |
| Genus: | Otoconcha Hutton, 1884[1] |
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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]
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.