Diodora aguayoi

Diodora aguayoi
Diodora aguayoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Fissurelloidea
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginullinae
Tribe: Diodorini
Genus: Diodora
Species: D. aguayoi
Binomial name
Diodora aguayoi
Pérez Farfante, 1943 [1]

Diodora aguayoi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.[2]

Description

The size of the shell reaches 22 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and off Bermuda and Barbados.

References

  1. Pérez Farfante, I. 1943. The genus Diodora in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia 1(11): 1-20
  2. Diodora aguayoi Pérez Farfante, 1943.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2013.

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