Otitoma

Otitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[2]

Otitoma
Otitoma gouldi shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898[1]
Type species
Otitoma ottitoma Jousseaume, 1898
Synonyms[2]
Austropusilla (Metaclathurella) Shuto, 1983 Lioglyphostomella Shuto, 1970 Metaclathurella Shuto, 1983 Thelecytharella Shuto, 1969

This genus consists of species with a rather variable appearance. Their different morphology points to an uncommon diversification.^[3]

Taxonomy

This genus was considered a nomen dubium by Powell in 1966,^[4] until Kilburn resurrected it in 2004.^[5] He considered Thelecytharella a synonym of Otitoma. Finally in 2011 Bouchet et al. closed the debate about this genera based on molecular evidence and assigned Otitoma to the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[6]

Species

Species within the genus Otitoma include:

• Otitoma astrolabensis Wiedrick, 2014
• Otitoma aureolineata Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
• Otitoma batjanensis (Schepman, 1913)
• Otitoma boucheti Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma carnicolor (Hervier, 1896)
• Otitoma crassivaricosa Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma crokerensis (Shuto, 1983)
• Otitoma cyclophora (Deshayes, 1863)
• Otitoma deluta (Gould, 1860)
• Otitoma elegans Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma fergusoni Wiedrick, 2014
• Otitoma gouldi (Yen, 1944)
• Otitoma hadra Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma jennyae Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
• † Otitoma kagoshimaensis (Shuto, 1965)
• Otitoma kecil (Sysoev, 1997)
• Otitoma kwandangensis (Schepman, 1913)
• Otitoma lirata (Reeve, 1845)
• Otitoma metuloides (Kilburn, 1995)
• Otitoma neocaledonica Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma nereidum Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma oneili (Barnard, 1958)
• † Otitoma oyamai (Shuto, 1965)
• Otitoma philippinensis Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma philpoppei Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma pictolabra Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
• Otitoma porcellana Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
• Otitoma rubiginosa (Hinds, 1843)
• Otitoma rubiginostoma Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma sororcula Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma timorensis (Schepman, 1913)
• Otitoma tropispira Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017
• Otitoma vitrea (Reeve, 1845)
• Otitoma wiedricki Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
• Otitoma xantholineata Morassi, Nappo & Bonfitto, 2017

Species brought into synonymy

• Otitoma crenulata Pease, 1868: synonym of Otitoma cyclophora (Deshayes, 1863)
• Otitoma mitra (Kilburn, 1986): synonym of Otitoma cyclophora (Deshayes, 1863)
• Otitoma ottitoma Jousseaume, 1898: synonym of Otitoma cyclophora (Deshayes, 1863)

References

1. Jousseaume F. (1898). "Description d’un mollusque nouveau". Le Naturaliste 20(= serie 2, 12)(268): 106-107.
2. Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 August 2011.
3. Morassi, Mauro; Nappo, Andrea; Bonfitto, Antonio (2017). "New species of the genus Otitoma Jousseaume, 1898 (Pseudomelatomidae, Conoidea) from the Western Pacific Ocean". European Journal of Taxonomy (304). doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.304.
4. Powell A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae: an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with lists of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 5: 1–184.
5. Kilburn, Richard N (December 2004). "The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae)" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 45. Pietermaritzburg: 263–270. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-05.
6. Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

• Wiedrick S.G. (2014). Review of the genera Otitoma Jousseaume, 1880 and Thelecytharella with the description of two new species Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae) from the southwest Pacific Ocean. The Festivus. 46(3): 40-53

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Jousseaume, F. (1898). Description d’un mollusque nouveau. Le Naturaliste. 20[= ser. 2, 12] (268): 106-107
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae