Otopleura
Otopleura nitida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Genus:	Otopleura P. Fischer, 1885 [1]
Type species
Voluta auriscati Holten, H.S., 1802
Synonyms[2]
Aphalista Laseron, 1959

Otopleura is a genus of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.^[2]

Species within the genus Otopleura include:

• Otopleura auriscati (Holten, 1802)
• Otopleura glans (Reeve, 1843)
• Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1855)
• Otopleura nitida (A. Adams in H. & A. Adams, 1853–58)
• Otopleura nodicincta (A. Adams, 1855)

Species brought into synonymy

• Otopleura australis Laseron, 1959: synonym of Otopleura mitralis (A. Adams, 1854)

Species of this genus can be found throughout the Pacific Ocean.

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp