Optediceros Leith 1853

Optediceros is a genus of minute operculate snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Ekadantinae of the family Assimineidae.^[1]

Species

Species within Optediceros include:

• Optediceros breviculum (Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Optediceros marginatum Leith, 1853

Species brought into synonymy

• Optediceros corneum Leith, 1853: synonym of Assiminea cornea (Leith, 1853) (original combination)

References

• Leith, A. H. 1853. Note on an Apparently New Genus of Gasteropod. The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 5: 145-146.
• Habe, T. (1942). Classification of Japanese Assimineidae. Venus. 12(1-2): 32-56, pls 1-4.