Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Punctoidea
Familia: Charopidae
Subfamilia: Otoconchinae
Genus: Otoconcha
Species: O. dimidiata
Name
Otoconcha Hutton, 1884
Type Species: Vitrina dimidiata L. Pfeiffer, 1853
References
Hutton F.W. 1884. Revision of the land Mollusca of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 188–199.
Schileyko, A.A. 2001. Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 7: Endodontidae, Thyrophorellidae, Charopidae. Ruthenica, Suppl. 2: 1026.
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]
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
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[1]
Hutton F. W. (1884). "Revision of the Land Mollusca of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 16: 186-212. page 199.
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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