Otoconcha dimidiata

Otoconcha dimidiata
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
Species: O. dimidiata
Binomial name
Otoconcha dimidiata
(Pfeiffer, 1853)[1]
Synonyms

Vitrina dimidiata Pfeiffer, 1853

Otoconcha dimidiata is a species of small air-breathing semi-slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Charopidae.

Otoconcha dimidiata is the type species of the genus Otoconcha.

Contents

Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand.

Ecology

Otoconcha dimidiata is the preferred prey of the carnivorous land gastropod Schizoglossa novoseelandica.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pfeiffer L. K. G. (1853). Monogr. Helix Vi... 3: page 6.
  2. ^ Murdoch R. C. (1894) "Notes on the variation and habits of Schizoglossa novoseelandica". Proceedings of the malacological society 1(3): 138.

External links

  • Baker H. B. (1938) "The Endodont genus Otochoncha". 23: page 89-91.
  • 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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