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

• Diodora aguayoi Pérez Farfante, 1943
• Diodora alta (C.B. Adams, 1852)
• Diodora arcuata (Sowerby II, 1862)
• Diodora arnoldi McLean, 1966
• Diodora aspera (Rathke, 1833)
• Diodora australis Krauss
• Diodora benguelensis (Dunker, 1846)
• Diodora bermudensis (Dall & Bartsch, 1911)
• Diodora bollonsi (Oliver, 1915)
• Diodora calyculata (Sowerby I, 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 (E. A. 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 (E. A. 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 (E. A. Smith, 1906)
• 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 (E.A. Smith, 1914)
• Diodora lima (G.B. Sowerby II, 1862)
• Diodora lincolnensis (Cotton, 1930)
• Diodora lineata (Sowerby I, 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 (G.B. Sowerby III, 1889)
• Diodora patagonica (d'Orbigny, 1839)
• Diodora philippiana (Dunker, 1846)
• Diodora pica (G.B. Sowerby I, 1835)
• Diodora producta (Monterosato, 1880)
• Diodora punctifissa McLean, 1970
• Diodora pusilla Berry, 1959
• Diodora quadriradiata (Reeve, 1850)
• Diodora ruepellii (G.B. Sowerby I, 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 (E.A. Smith, 1901)
• Diodora tanneri (A. E. Verrill, 1882)
• Diodora ticaonica (Reeve, 1850)
• Diodora variegata (Sowerby II, 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): 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)

Diodora lineata

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 tenebrosa Conrad
• Diodora vola Reeve

References

1. 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

• 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

External links

• Australian Faunal Directory