Otopleura
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Pyramidella is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of minute to medium-sized sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
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 gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....

, the pyrams and their allies.

Species

Species within the genus Otopleura include:
  • Otopleura auriscati (Holten, 1802)
  • Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1855)
  • Otopleura nodocincta (A. Adams, 1855)


According to the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, the following species are also included within the genus Otopleura :
  • Otopleura australis Laseron, 1959
  • Otopleura glans (Reeve, 1843)
  • Otopleura nitida (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1853–58)
  • Otopleura nodicincta (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1853–58)
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