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Otoconcha

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Subfamily
  
Otoconchinae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Family
  
Charopidae

Rank
  
Genus

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

Contents

Otoconcha is the type genus of the subfamily Otoconchinae.

Description

Frederick Wollaston Hutton firstly defined this genus in 1884. Hutton's diagnosis reads as follows:

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

    Otoconcha Wikipedia