Otopleura
| Otopleura | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Otopleura nitida | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Heterobranchia |
| Clade: | Euthyneura |
| Order: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Otopleura P. Fischer, 1885 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Voluta auriscati Holten, H.S., 1802 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
|
Aphalista Laseron, 1959 | |
Otopleura is a genus of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Otopleura include:
- Otopleura auriscati (Holten, 1802)
- Otopleura glans (Reeve, 1843)
- Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1855)
- Otopleura nitida (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1853–58)
- Otopleura nodicincta (A. Adams, 1855)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Otopleura australis Laseron, 1959: synonym of Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1854)
Distribution
Species of this genus can be found throughout the Pacific Ocean.
References
- ↑ Fischer. Manuel de Conch., 787, 1885,
- 1 2 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
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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