Otoconcha

Otoconcha
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]

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.

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Species

Species within the genus Otoconcha include:

• Otoconcha dimidiata (Pfeiffer, 1853) - type species

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference^[1]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} 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 P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 

External links

• 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.