''Otoconcha'' 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 small air-breathing

semi-slug Semi-slugs, also spelled semislugs, are land gastropods whose shells are too small for them to retract into, but not quite vestigial. The shell of some semi-slugs may not be easily visible on casual inspection, because the shell may be covered ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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 ...

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

s in the family

Charopidae Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...

. ''Otoconcha'' is the

type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus (''genus typica'') is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearin ...

of the subfamily Otoconchinae.

Description

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

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 The ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Malacological Society of London, covering research in malacology.

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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
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* Suter H. (1915). ''Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Atlas of plates''. John Mackay, Government printer, Wellington
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