Diodora

Diodora
Shells of Diodora cayenensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Diodora
Gray, 1821
Type species
Diodora graeca apertura (f) Montagu, G., 1803
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Austroglyphis Cotton & Godfrey, 1934
  • Capiluna Gray, 1857
  • Diodora (Diodora) Gray, 1821
  • Elegidion Iredale, 1924
  • Fissuridea Swainson, 1840
  • Glyphis Carpenter, 1857 (invalid: junior homonym of Glyphis Agassiz, 1843)
  • Monodilepas Finlay, H.J. 1926

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]

Diodora elizabethae
Diodora saturnalis
Diodora patagonica

Synonyms:

Diodora lineata

Further species include [7]

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. J. Mollus. Stud. (1958) 33 (1): 2-10 http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/1/2. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. GRAHAM, A. (1955). "Molluscan diets". Journal of Molluscan Studies 31 (3–4): 144.
  4. 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.
  5. Malacolog list of Western Atlantic Diodora species at: . accessed 21 September 2009.
  6. G. T. Poppe, S. P. Tagaro & J. C. Sarino (2011). "Two new species of Fissurellidae from Namibia". Visaya 3 (4): 71–75.
  7. Discover Life : Diodora

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