Genus Diala Adams, 1861

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diala Adams, A. 1861. On some new genera and species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 8(45): 239-246 [242].

  Type species:

   Diala varia A. Adams, 1863 (= Diala semistriata (Philippi, 1849)) by subsequent designation, see Cossmann, M. 1921. Essais de Paléoconchologie Comparée. Paris Vol. 12 349 pp. [55, 56]; Dall, W.H. 1922. Note on Alaba and Diala. Nautilus 35: 84-85 [84].
• Cithna Adams, A. 1863. On the genera and species of Fossaridae found in Japan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 110-113 [113].

  Type species:

   Cithna globosa A. Adams, 1863 by original designation (as given by Wenz).
• Laevitesta Laseron, C.F. 1950. Review of the Rissoidae of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 22: 257-287, figs 1-94 [286].

  Type species:

   Laevitesta scobina Laseron, 1950 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Ponder, W.F. & Keyzer, R. de 1992. A revision of the genus Diala (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Dialidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1019-1075 [1021-1022]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [125]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	DIALIDAE	15-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED