Otoconcha

Otoconcha is a genus of small air-breathing semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Charopidae.

Otoconcha
Otoconcha dimidiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
Family:
Charopidae
Subfamily:
Otoconchinae
Genus:
Otoconcha

Hutton, 1884[1]
Synonyms
  • Otoconcha (Maoriconcha) Dell, 1952 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Otoconcha (Otoconcha) Hutton, 1883 · accepted, alternate representation

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]

  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.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  • Baker H. B. (1938) "The Endodont genus Otochoncha". Journal of Molluscan Studies 23: page 89-91.
  • Dell R. K. (1952). "Otoconcha and its allies in New Zealand". Dominion Mus. Rec. Zool., Wellington 1: 59-69, 8+8 figures.
  • Suter H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington, 1120 pp. page 620.
  • Suter H. (1915). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Atlas of plates. John Mackay, Government printer, Wellington. plate 25, figure 2, 2a.
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