Species of gastropod
Otina ovata Temporal range:
Upper Jurassic–Recent
[1] (range is for Otinidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Otinidae
Genus:
Otina
Species:
O. ovata
Binomial name
Otina ovata
Synonyms
[6]
Galericulum ovatum Brown, 1827
[4]
Helix otis Turton, 1819
Otina otis (Turton, 1819)
Otina turtoni
Locard , 1886
[5]
Otina ovata is a
species of small, air-breathing
sea snail or
sea slug , a
marine
pulmonate
gastropod
mollusk in the superfamily
Otinoidea .
Otina ovata is the only species in the genus Otina .
[7]
[8] Otina is the only genus in the family Otinidae .
[8]
[9]
This family was classified within the clade
Eupulmonata , which was within the informal group
Basommatophora , according to the
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) .
[10]
Various authors have referred some North American
fossil shells to "Otinidae",
[1] but they did not give a genus or species for these records.
Distribution
This species is not common.
It occurs on the coasts of the Northeastern
Atlantic Ocean in Western and South-Western Europe:
[11]
The type locality is
Devonshire , England.
[12]
Description
The
shell is very small.
[11] The shell has 1.5
whorls .
[11] The
last whorl is inflated.
[11] The
aperture is oval and very large, like in
succineids , columellar and parietal sides of the margin thickened.
[11]
The width of the shell is 1.5–3 mm.
[8]
[11] The height of the shell is 2–5 mm.
[8]
[11]
The animal cannot withdraw entirely into the shell.
[11] Otina ovata has no
tentacles .
[11]
Habitat
This species breathes air and thus it is found
intertidally on rocky shores in such places as caves and rocky overhangs.
Otina ovata lives in
intertidal zone on rocks, algae and
balanoids .
[11] It is often found in empty bivalve shells and moist rock crevices.
[11]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
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"Family summary for Otinidae" .
AnimalBase , last modified 16 january 2007, accessed 8 March 2011.
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Adams H. &
Adams A. (1855). The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organisation , Van Voorst, London. 2 (23):
249 .
^ Gray J. E. (1847). "A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types".
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15 : 129-219.
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b Brown T. (1827). Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland . Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, D. Lizars and S. Highley. [vi] + v, 1-65 , 52 plates.
Plate 38 , fig. 27-28.
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Locard A. (1886).
Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusque marins . Lyon, H. Georg & Paris, Baillière, pp. X + 778. page 88.
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b Gofas, S. (2011). Otina ovata (Brown, 1827). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140661 on 2011-03-08
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"Genus summary for Otina " .
AnimalBase , last modified 16 January 2007, accessed 8 March 2011.
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d Glöer P. (2002) Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas . Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp.,
ISBN
3-925919-60-0 , page 259-290.
^ (in Czech) de Bruyne R. H. (2004). Encyklopedie ulit a lastur . Rebo Productions, 336 pp.,
ISBN
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Bouchet, Philippe ;
Rocroi, Jean-Pierre ; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard;
Ponder, Winston ; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "
Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families ".
Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397.
ISBN
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ISSN
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"Species summary for Otina ovata " .
AnimalBase , last modified 28 February 2011, accessed 8 March 2011.
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"Species taxon summary ovatum Brown, 1827 described in Galericulum " , accessed 8 March 2011
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