Optediceros breviculum
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.168636 1 - Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1854) - Assimineidae - Mollusc shell. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Assimineidae |
Genus: | Optediceros |
Species: | O. breviculum
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Binomial name | |
Optediceros breviculum (Pfeiffer, 1855)
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Optediceros breviculum, common name the red mangrove snail, is a species of minute operculate snail, a freshwater or marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Assimineidae.
Distribution
[edit]The distribution of Optediceros breviculum includes:
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- Bangladesh[1]
- China and Hong Kong and Taiwan[1]
- West Bengal in India[1]
- Japan[1]
- Malaysia[1]
- Myanmar[1]
- Philippines[1]
- Singapore[1]
- Sri Lanka[1]
- Thailand[1]
- Vietnam[1]
References
[edit]- Blanford, W. T. 1867. Descriptions of some Indian and Burmese species of Assiminea. Annals And Magazine of Natural History 19: 381-386.
External links
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