Otopleura

Otopleura
Otopleura
Otopleura nitida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Pyramidellinae
Tribe: Pyramidellini
Genus: Otopleura
P. Fischer, 1885

Pyramidella is a genus of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Otopleura include:

  • Otopleura auriscati (Holten, 1802)
  • Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1855)
  • Otopleura nodocincta (A. Adams, 1855)

According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following species are also included within the genus Otopleura :[2]

  • Otopleura australis Laseron, 1959
  • Otopleura glans (Reeve, 1843)
  • Otopleura nitida (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1853–58)
  • Otopleura nodicincta (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1853–58)

References

  1. ^ Otopleura P. Fischer, 1885 . Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204418 on 28 April 2011
  2. ^ OBIS : Otopleura
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp