Optediceros
| Optediceros | |
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| Shell of Optediceros breviculum (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Assimineidae |
| Genus: | Optediceros Leith, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sphaerassiminea Habe, 1942 (junior synonym) | |
Optediceros is a genus of minute operculate snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the family Assimineidae.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within Optediceros include:
- Optediceros breviculum (Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853
- Species brought into synonymy
- Optediceros corneum Leith, 1853: synonym of Assiminea cornea (Leith, 1853) (original combination)
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Optediceros Leith, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716995 on 2019-06-23
- Leith, A. H. 1853. Note on an Apparently New Genus of Gasteropod. The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 5: 145-146.
- Habe, T. (1942). Classification of Japanese Assimineidae. Venus. 12(1-2): 32-56, pls 1-4.
External links
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