Biology:Optediceros breviculum

Short description: Species of gastropod

Optediceros breviculum
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.168636 1 - Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1854) - Assimineidae - Mollusc shell.
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Assimineidae
Subfamily:	Ekadantinae
Genus:	Optediceros
Species:	O. breviculum
Binomial name
Optediceros breviculum (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Synonyms
Assiminea australis Thiele, 1927 (non Petterd, 1889) Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1855) Assiminea miniata Martens, 1866 (junior synonym) Assiminea rubella Blanford, 1867 (junior synonym) Hydrocena brevicula Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination) Ovassiminea brevicula (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)

Optediceros breviculum, common name the red mangrove snail, is a species of minute operculate snail, a freshwater or marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Optediceros breviculum includes:

Distribution map of Optediceros breviculum.

• Bangladesh
• China and Hong Kong and Taiwan
• West Bengal in India
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

References

• Blanford, W. T. 1867. Descriptions of some Indian and Burmese species of Assiminea. Annals And Magazine of Natural History 19: 381-386.

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

Wikidata ☰ Q13401052 entry