Optediceros | |
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Shell of Optediceros breviculum (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Assimineidae |
Genus: | Optediceros Leith, 1853 |
Type species | |
Optediceros marginatumLeith, 1853 | |
Synonyms | |
SphaerassimineaHabe, 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 within Optediceros include:
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