Otina ovata

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
Temporal range: (range is for Otinidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata

clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:
Otinoidea
Family:
Otinidae

Genus:
Otina

Species:
O. ovata
Binomial name
Otina ovata
(Brown, 1827)
Synonyms
  • Galericulum ovatum Brown, 1827
  • Helix otis Turton, 1819
  • Otina otis (Turton, 1819)
  • Otina turtoni Locard, 1886

Otina ovata is the only species in the genus Otina. Otina is the only genus in the family Otinidae.

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).

Various authors have referred some North American fossil shells to "Otinidae", but they did not give a genus or species for these records.

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