Species Diodora ruppellii (Sowerby, 1834)

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Species Diodora ruppellii (Sowerby, 1834)

Compiler and date details

September 2014 - Des Beechey & Winston F. Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

December 2012 - Des Beechey, Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Stephanie Baccarella, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Fissurella ruppellii Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1834. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834(2): 6-128 [128].
Type data:
Status unknown, ad insulam Neus; in Sinu Arabico.
Diodora nigriradiata Reeve, L.A. 1850. Monograph of the genus Fissurella. pls 1-16 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 6. [pl. 15, sp. 81].

Generic Combinations

Diodora rupellii (Sowerby, 1834). —
Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [67]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands. In Australia, known only from Coral Sea (AMS C.223753). Queensland record is of doubtful identification.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Barash, A. & Danin, Z. 1972. The Indo-Pacific species of Mollusca in the Mediterranean and notes on a collection from the Suez Canal. Israel Journal of Zoology 21: 301-374 [303-304, fig. 2]

Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [352]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [42, fig. 11C-D]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [254]

Subba Rao, N.V. 2003. Indian Seashells (Part 1). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper (192): 1-416 [67]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [52, pl. 6, fig. 18a-b] (Relies on Hedley (1910) for the presence of the species in Australia)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jan-2015	FISSURELLOIDEA	22-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Stephanie Baccarella (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) Dr Winston Ponder (AM)
		21-Nov-2013	MODIFIED

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