Otina ovata
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Otina ovata Brown, 1827
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Otina ovata is a species of small, air-breathing sea snail or sea slug, a marine pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Otinidae.
Habitat
This species breathes air and thus it is found intertidally on rocky shores in such places as caves and rocky overhangs.
Distribution
This species is not common. It occurs on the coasts of the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean including Ireland, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal.[1]
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