Diodora

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Diodora

Diodora is a genus of small to medium-sized keyhole limpet in the family Fissurellidae.[1]

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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

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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
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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

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Species in this genus include:[5]

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Diodora elizabethae
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Diodora saturnalis
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Diodora patagonica

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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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 semilunata (Habe, 1953)
  • Diodora suprapunicea (Otuka, 1937)
  • Diodora tenebrosa Conrad
  • Diodora vola Reeve

References

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