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Diodora bermudensis (W. H. Dall & P. Bartsch, 1911)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Lepetellida »  family Fissurellidae - Keyhole Limpets »  genus Diodora

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Diodora bermudensis

Author: Dall, W.H. & Bartsch, P.

Diodora bermudensis

Author: Perez Farfante, I.

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Description

As Fissuridea:

Shell small, white, elevated, reticulately sculptured; apex a little in advance of the middle of the shell, rather pointed; the anal aperture long-oval, the margins excavated in the middle, internally with a thickened margin, subtruncate behind; sculpture of radiating threads with wider deep interspaces, crossed between the apex and the base by about a dozen concentric lines, representing old margins, nodulating the radials and forming deep pits between the intersec-tions; interior of the shell white, the margin forming a regular oval, and often internally radially grooved in harmony with the external ribs. Length, 5; breadth, 3.5; height, 3 mm.
Cotypes.—In the Bermuda Museum and U. S. National Museum Cat, No. 221618.
This small species has been carefully compared with young speci-mens of the already known species with none of which could it, ap-parently, be prudently united.
Dall, W.H. & Bartsch, P., 1911. New species of shells from Bermuda.
"Shell small, white, elevated, reticulately sculptured: apex a little in advance of the middle of the shell, rather pointed: the anal perforation long-oval, the mar gins excavated in the middle, internally with a thickened margin, subtruncated behind sculpture of radiating threads with wider deep interspaces, crossed between the apex and the base by about a dozen concentric lines, representing old margins, nodulating the radials and forming deep pits between the intersections; interior of the shell white, the margin forming a regular oval, and often internally radially grooved in harmony with the external ribs."
Perez Farfante, I., 1943. The genus Diodora in the Western Atlantic.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Diodora bermudensis Dall & Bartsch, 1911]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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