''Optediceros'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of minute

operculate An operculum (; ) is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor that exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails, including the Helicinidae, Cyclophoridae, A ...

snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

s, marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s or

micromollusk A micromollusc is a shelled mollusc which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine molluscs, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater molluscs also ...

s in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the

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Assimineidae Assimineidae is a family (biology), family of small snails, also known as palmleaf snails, with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea. Many of these very small snails live in i ...

.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

Species

Species within ''Optediceros'' include: * ''

Optediceros breviculum ''Optediceros breviculum'', common name the red mangrove snail, is a species of small operculate snail, a freshwater or marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family (biology), family Assimineidae. Distribution The distr ...

'' (Pfeiffer, 1855) * '' Optediceros marginatum'' Leith, 1853 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Optediceros corneum'' Leith, 1853: synonym of ''

Assiminea cornea ''Assiminea'' is a genus of minute, salt-tolerant snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Assiminea Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of M ...

'' (Leith, 1853) (original combination)

References

* 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

Fukuda H. & Ponder W.F. 2003. ''Australian freshwater assimineids, with a synopsis of the Recent genus-group taxa of the Assimineidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea).'' Journal of Natural History, 37: 1977-2032
Assimineidae Gastropod genera {{Assimineidae-stub