Diodora
Appearance
Diodora | |
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Shells of Diodora cayenensis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Subfamily: | Fissurellinae |
Genus: | Diodora Gray, 1821 |
Type species | |
Diodora graeca apertura (f) Montagu, G., 1803 | |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Diodora is a genus of small to medium-sized keyhole limpet in the family Fissurellidae.[1]
Life habits
Like all other fissurellids, Diodora species are herbivores, and use the radula to scrape algae from rocks. An exception is D. apertura, which grazes on sponges[2][3] such as Hymeniacidon.[4]
Water for respiration and excretion is drawn in under the edge of the shell and exits through the "keyhole" at or near the apex.
Species
Species in this genus include:[5]
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- Diodora aguayoi Pérez Farfante, 1943
- Diodora alta (Adams, 1852)
- Diodora arcuata (Sowerby, 1862)
- Diodora arnoldi McLean, 1966
- Diodora aspera (Rathke, 1833)
- Diodora australis (Krauss, 1848)
- Diodora benguelensis (Dunker, 1846)
- Diodora bermudensis (Dall & Bartsch, 1911)
- Diodora bollonsi (Oliver, 1915)
- Diodora calyculata (Sowerby, 1823)
- Diodora canariensis Verstraeten & Naef, 2007
- Diodora candida (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora cayenensis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Diodora corbicula (Sowerby, 1862)
- Diodora cruciata (Gould, 1846)
- Diodora crucifera Pilsbry, 1890
- Diodora delicata (Smith, 1899)
- Diodora demartiniorum Buzzurro & Russo, 2004
- Diodora digueti (Mabille, 1895)
- Diodora dorsata (Monterosato, 1878)
- Diodora dysoni (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora edwardsi (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
- Diodora elevata (Dunker, 1846)
- Diodora elizabethae (Smith, 1901)
- Diodora fargoi Olsson & McGinty, 1958
- Diodora fluviana (Dall, 1889)
- Diodora fontainiana (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Diodora fragilis Pérez Farfante & Henríquez, 1947
- Diodora funiculata (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora fuscocrenulata (Smith, 1906) érez Farfante
- Diodora galeata (Helbing, 1779)
- Diodora gibberula (Lamarck, 1822)
- Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Diodora granifera (Pease, 1861)
- Diodora harrassowitzi (Ihering, 1927)
- Diodora inaequalis (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora italica (DeFrance, 1820)
- Diodora jaumei Aguayo & Rehder, 1936
- Diodora jukesii (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora levicostata (Smith, 1914)
- Diodora lima (Sowerby, 1862)
- Diodora lincolnensis (Cotton, 1930)
- Diodora lineata (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora listeri (d'Orbigny, 1847)
- Diodora menkeana (Dunker, 1846)
- Diodora meta (Ihering, 1927)
- Diodora minuta (Lamarck, 1822)
- Diodora mirifica Métivier, 1972
- Diodora namibiensis Poppe, Tagaro & Sarino, 2011[6]
- Diodora occidua (Cotton, 1930)
- Diodora octagona (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora panamensis (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora parviforata (Sowerby, 1889)
- Diodora patagonica (d'Orbigny, 1839)
- Diodora philippiana (Dunker, 1846)
- Diodora pica (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora producta (Monterosato, 1880)
- Diodora punctifissa McLean, 1970
- Diodora pusilla Berry, 1959
- Diodora quadriradiata (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora ruppellii (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora sarasuae Espinosa, 1984
- Diodora saturnalis (Carpenter, 1864)
- Diodora sayi (Dall, 1889)
- Diodora sculptilis Rolán & Gori, 2011
- Diodora serae Espinosa & Ortea, 2011
- Diodora sieboldii (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora singaporensis (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora spreta (Smith, 1901)
- Diodora tanneri (Verrill, 1882)
- Diodora ticaonica (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora variegata (Sowerby, 1862)
- Diodora vetula (Woodring, 1928)
- Diodora viridula (Lamarck, 1822)
- Diodora wetmorei Pérez Farfante, 1945
Synonyms:
- Diodora fimbriata Reeve, 1850 : synonym of Diodora jukesii (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora natalensis ((Krauss, 1848), 1848): synonym of Fissurella natalensis Krauss, 1848
- Diodora nigropunctata Thiele, 1930: synonym of Diodora jukesii (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora noachina (Linnaeus, 1771): synonym of Puncturella noachina (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Diodora octogona [sic]: synonym of Diodora octagona (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora ovalis Thiele, 1930: synonym of Diodora singaporensis (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora philippiana (Finlay, 1930): synonym of Lucapina philippiana (Finlay, 1930)
- Diodora plicifera Thiele, 1930: synonym of Diodora jukesii (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora reevei Schepman, 1908: synonym of Diodora octagona (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora ruppellii (G.B. Sowerby I, 1835): synonym of Diodora rueppellii (G.B. Sowerby I, 1835)
- Diodora rugosa Thiele, 1930: synonym of Diodora lineata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1835)
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Further species include [7]
- Diodora alternata Say, 1822
- Diodora beebei (Hertlein and Strong, 1951)
- Diodora bombayana Sowerby, 1862
- Diodora carditella Dall
- Diodora crenifera (Sowerby, 1835)
- Diodora densiclathrata McLean, 1966
- Diodora elaborata Sowerby
- Diodora fusilla S. S. Berry, 1959 (or Diodora pusilla Berry, 1959 ?)
- Diodora habanensis Christiaens, 1975
- Diodora murina Arnold, 1903
- Diodora mus (Reeve, 1850)
- Diodora nucula (Dall)
- Diodora semilunata (Habe, 1953)
- Diodora suprapunicea (Otuka, 1937)
- Diodora tenebrosa Conrad
- Diodora vola Reeve
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Diodora J. E. Gray, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138011 on 21 May 2012
- ^ Morton, J. E. (1958). "Torsion and the adult snail: a re-evaluation". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 33 (1): 2–10. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064794.
- ^ Graham, A. (1955). "Molluscan diets". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 31 (3–4): 144–158. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064734.
- ^ Fretter, V. (2009). "Observation on the life history and functional morphology of Cerithiopsis tubercularis (Montagu) and Triphora perversa (L.)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 29 (03): 567. doi:10.1017/S0025315400052784.
- ^ Malacolog list of Western Atlantic Diodora species at: [1]. accessed 21 September 2009.
- ^ G. T. Poppe, S. P. Tagaro & J. C. Sarino (2011). "Two new species of Fissurellidae from Namibia". Visaya. 3 (4): 71–75.
- ^ Discover Life : Diodora
- Gray, J.E. 1821. A natural arrangement of Mollusca according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository 15: 229-239
- Swainson, W. 1840. A Treatise on Malacology or the Natural Classification of Shells and Shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp.
- Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242
- Gray, J.E. 1857. Guide to the Systematic Distribution of the Mollusca in the British Museum. London : British Museum Trustees 230 pp.
- Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen. London : British Museum pp. i-xii, 1-552. [220]
- Iredale, T. 1924. Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49(3): 179-279, pls 33-36
- Finlay, H.J. 1926. A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 320-485 pls 18-23
- Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1934. South Australian Shells. Part 10. South Australian Naturalist 15(2): 41-56
- Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1960. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part I. Mollusca 1. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press xxiii + 351 pp.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Aktipis, S.W., Boehm, E. & Giribet, G. 2011. Another step towards understanding the slit-limpets (Fissurellidae, Fissurelloidea, Vetigastropoda, Gastropoda): a combined five-gene molecular phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta 40(3): 238-259
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