WoRMS taxon details
Optediceros Leith, 1853
716995 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716995)
accepted
Genus
Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853 (type by subsequent designation)
Assiminea (Sphaerassiminea) Habe, 1942 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Optediceros breviculum (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Species Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853
- Species Optediceros corneum Leith, 1853 accepted as Assiminea cornea (Leith, 1853) (original combination)
brackish, fresh
neuter
Leith, A. H. (1853). Note on an apparently new genus of gasteropod. <em>The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.</em> 5: 145-146.
page(s): 145 [details]
page(s): 145 [details]
Note type species designated by Fukuda & Ponder (2003)
Type species type species designated by Fukuda & Ponder (2003) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Optediceros Leith, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716995 on 2025-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Leith, A. H. (1853). Note on an apparently new genus of gasteropod. <em>The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.</em> 5: 145-146.
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Assiminea (Sphaerassiminea) Habe, 1942) Habe, T. (1942). Classification of Japanese Assimineidae. <em>Venus.</em> 12(1-2): 32-56, pls 1-4.
page(s): 42 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Assiminea (Sphaerassiminea) Habe, 1942) Habe, T. (1942). Classification of Japanese Assimineidae. <em>Venus.</em> 12(1-2): 32-56, pls 1-4.
page(s): 42 [details] Available for editors
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subsequent type designation
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930210125380
page(s): 2018 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 2018 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Type species type species designated by Fukuda & Ponder (2003) [details]
