Optediceros breviculum

Optediceros breviculum
	Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.168636 1 - Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1854) - Assimineidae - Mollusc shell.
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Assimineidae
Subfamily:	Ekadantinae
Genus:	Optediceros
Species:	O. breviculum
Binomial name
	Optediceros breviculum; (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Synonyms
	Assiminea australis Thiele, 1927 (non Petterd, 1889); Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1855); Assiminea miniata Martens, 1866 (junior synonym); Assiminea rubella Blanford, 1867 (junior synonym); Hydrocena brevicula Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination); Ovassiminea brevicula (L. Pfeiffer, 1854);

Optediceros breviculum, common name the red mangrove snail, is a species of minute operculate snail, a freshwater or marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Assimineidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Optediceros breviculum includes:

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Madhyastha A. & Daniel B. A. (2010). "Assiminea brevicula". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 August 2014.

Blanford, W. T. 1867. Descriptions of some Indian and Burmese species of Assiminea. Annals And Magazine of Natural History 19: 381-386.

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

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Optediceros breviculum

Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.168636 1 - Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1854) - Assimineidae - Mollusc shell.
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Assimineidae
Subfamily:	Ekadantinae
Genus:	Optediceros
Species:	O. breviculum
Binomial name
*Optediceros breviculum* (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Synonyms
Assiminea australis Thiele, 1927 (non Petterd, 1889) Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1855) Assiminea miniata Martens, 1866 (junior synonym) Assiminea rubella Blanford, 1867 (junior synonym) Hydrocena brevicula Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination) Ovassiminea brevicula (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)