Family DIAPHANIDAE Odhner, 1914

Family Diaphanidae. Diaphana brazieri.(from Beesley, Ross & Wells 1998) [R. Plant]

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• Diaphanidae Odhner, N. H. 1914. Ptisanula limnaeoides, a new Arctic opisthobranchiate mollusc, its anatomy and affinities. Arkiv för Zoologi .

  Type genus:

   Diaphana Brown, 1827.

Introduction

Generally small animals with thin fragile transparent shells, into which the body can retract. The head is wider anteriorly, with furrowed margins. The foot is short in those species with external shell, sometime indented in the rear margin, sometimes with an accessory “foot” formed by a posterior fold of the shell mantle showing behind the shell. In species with internal shell, the foot is long and slender, and much wider in front. Compiled from Burn (in press).

General References

Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds) 1998. Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [947]

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42

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