North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Diodora J. E. Gray, 1821

Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specimen from Benalmena, Spain (actual size 14 mm).

AphiaID

138011 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138011)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Patella apertura Montagu, 1803 accepted as Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Diodorinae Odhner, 1932

Parent

Fissurellideinae Pilsbry, 1890

Original name

Diodora J. E. Gray, 1821

Synonymised names

Glyphis P. P. Carpenter, 1857 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Glyphis Agassiz, 1843 [Pisces]

Direct children (16)

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Species Diodora canariensis Verstraeten & Nolf, 2007
Species Diodora cayenensis (Lamarck, 1822)
Species Diodora demartiniorum Buzzurro & Russo, 2005
Species Diodora dorsata (Monterosato, 1878)
Species Diodora funiculata (Reeve, 1850)
Species Diodora giannispadai Aissaoui, Puillandre & Bouchet, 2017
Species Diodora gibberula (Lamarck, 1822)
Species Diodora graeca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Diodora italica (Defrance, 1820)
Species Diodora producta (Monterosato, 1880)
Species Diodora ruppellii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
Species Diodora tanneri (A. E. Verrill, 1882)
Species Diodora tenuiclathrata (G. Seguenza, 1863)
Species Diodora edwardsi (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896) accepted as Diodora tenuiclathrata (G. Seguenza, 1863)
Species Diodora indusica (Reeve, 1850) accepted as Diodora funiculata (Reeve, 1850)
Species Diodora rueppellii [sic] accepted as Diodora ruppellii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) (misspelling)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Gray, J. E. (1821). A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239., available online at https://archive.org/details/s0id11783780/page/229/mode/1up
page(s): 233 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Diodora J. E. Gray, 1821. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138011 on 2026-05-27

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Diodora J. E. Gray, 1821. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138011 on 2026-05-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-14 13:13:24Z

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Mussai, Prakash

2010-10-03 15:39:41Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2010-10-27 19:50:11Z

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Gofas, Serge

2011-11-05 09:28:42Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2016-02-22 20:21:57Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2016-10-19 00:04:27Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2017-07-08 06:16:11Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2024-01-25 17:14:14Z

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Auffenberg, Kurt

2024-01-31 19:11:42Z

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Köhler, Frank

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original description Gray, J. E. (1821). A natural arrangement of Mollusca, according to their internal structure. London Medical Repository. 15 (87): 229–239., available online at https://archive.org/details/s0id11783780/page/229/mode/1up
page(s): 233 [details]

original description (of Glyphis P. P. Carpenter, 1857) Carpenter, P. P. (1857). Monograph of the shells collected by T. Nuttall, Esq., on the California coast, in the years 1834–5. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1856) 24: 209-229., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860757 [details]

basis of record McLean, J.H. & Geiger, D.L. (1998). New genera and species having the Fissurisepta shell form, with a generic-level phylogenetic analysis (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 475: 1-32., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.208103 [details] Available for editors

additional source Korobkov I.A. (1955). Spravochnik i metodicheskoe rukovodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briukhonogie. [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs. Gastropoda]. Leningrad: Gostoptekhizdat. 795 pp.
page(s): 86 [details]