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