Otoconcha | |
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Otoconcha dimidiata | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Charopidae |
Genus: |
Otoconcha Hutton, 1884 [1] |
Synonyms | |
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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.
Species within the genus Otoconcha include:
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]
Otoconcha | |
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Otoconcha dimidiata | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Charopidae |
Genus: |
Otoconcha Hutton, 1884 [1] |
Synonyms | |
|
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.
Species within the genus Otoconcha include:
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]