Optediceros

Optediceros is a genus of minute operculate snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the family Assimineidae.

Species

Species within Optediceros include:

• Optediceros breviculum <small>(Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
• Optediceros marginatum <small>Leith, 1853</small>

• Optediceros corneum <small>Leith, 1853</small>: synonym of Assiminea cornea <small>(Leith, 1853)</small> (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